“Come with me and I will try to explain what has happened to you,” he said. The girl nodded meekly and followed him. When they reached the bottom of the stairs, Judas led her to the trunk of a fallen tree and invited her to sit. “Now, this is going to be hard to understand and even harder to take in, but I’m going to try and speak clearly and there will be moments where I may come across as being a bit blunt, but that’s for your own good. Okay?” The girl closed her eyes and placed both hands in her lap. Judas took this has permission and started to talk. “You are dead. You will have looked about you and realised that all is not as it should be, but even so, you might have thought yourself to be asleep, possibly in a hospital, the victim of a hit and run perhaps. Regardless, this is whe