When Sebastian was seven, a traumatic thing happened to
him. He had seen the monkeys in a cage from the corner of his eye and had
wandered over to feed them. He remembered one of them bit his little finger.
Blood oozed from the wound causing Sebastian to turn to
show his parents. They were not there as they had gone on without him.
Sebastian screamed and wept until a woman came to help.
She asked Sebastian who he had come to the Zoo with, and
he replied his two brothers and his parents. She then asked what was the last
thing they had said to him?
“If anyone gets lost we’ll meet up at the circus, “he
told the woman.
So that is what she did, she took Sebastian to the
circus and there they found a very worried looking mother and father.
Sebastian never wandered off again.
When Sebastian was nine, a traumatic thing happened to
him.
When the siren wailed, the whole family, as they had practiced,
went to the fallout shelter at the end of Frankenholme Street.
Sebastian remembers the darkness, then the sudden
brightness and then the oozing of blood. When the sun came up again, Sebastian
was the only one left.
Only dust and shadows filled what was left of the
shelter.
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