away.But it did not and Lek lay down on the bed and cried herself to sleep – alone.
Back to the Top
3 SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS
During the night, Lek woke herself up several times from a recurring nightmare about her mother lying dead at the bottom of the stairs and her daughter crying out for her mother to come to help her. She had had the same dream before, but she was getting it more and more often now. One day she would get a telephone call to say it had come true. She was sure it was a prophesy.
She was lying awake in bed, perspiring profusely from worry about her dream but trying to watch the news on the television at midday, when Ayr and Goong came back. Their good humour soon infected Lek and the horror of the nightmare slipped into the back of her
