Chapter 8
JOHANNA STAGGERED back towards the cellar’s door.
Now that she knew what she was looking at, she counted at least half a dozen people kept frozen amongst large blocks of ice, some slowly leaking water on the stone floor. Now she really understood where the bad smell came from. Those were just the bodies she could see. It was too dark in the cellar to count the basins and who knew how many bodies were stacked up in each basin?
She heard the farmer girl Lenie’s voice People who go into the forest don’t come back.
Her head reeled.
Slowly, she backed out of the cellar into the tunnel. In between being stuck with dead people in here and live people outside, she took her chances with the live ones.
She closed the door firmly behind her and pressed herself in the little alcove in
