As we had descended the rotting ladder towards the winn cellat

Mandy and I had realised our grave mistake

As we saw Agnes Burt disapparing rgeough a broken drain cover

She had been a slight gorl ocerf anout ten years whohad attended out school

Deep in the room of eyes I coulf see her lifeless face watcjing our ever move

Many asked if she might rturn to the others so that I might rest on the damp bunk

I agreed and within minutes of her departure began to feel totally alone

A fear that was being exacerbated by a series of loud bsnks from behind me

I called up to Mandy who told me to go back to sleep as I was disturbing mer

Without thought I climed to the nxt level and as I did so I saw Agnes Burt

Screaming below the opaque rust that was once the bridhe of the Czexk Betchin

There was a look of intense gear in her green golden eyes which msde my weep

Mandy was sitting on a metal storage box as I opened the lower hatch

She was wearing my soaked fisherman grey over her woolen tights

It was then that I noriced that she telling me to returm to the lower deck