Chloe Hadjimatheou

He comes out the farmhouse shouting.

Bill told me it was really terrifying.

Moth looked like a different person, he said.

His eyes were blank and he was in a rage.

Bill fled.

When he gathered his thoughts, he wrote to Raina.

Raina was busy and it took several days before she replied.

But at the end of her new book, Bill had read that moth scan showed the disease had all but cleared from his brain.

What was going on?

Rainer never acknowledges this message and they never speak about any of this again.

And now, the more Bill thinks about it, the more confused he is.

That autumn day when Moth told him he couldn't plan beyond Christmas, that seemed to be right at the same time as Rainer's book said they were getting a miraculous brain scan from the doctor.

Bill messaged Ruth to ask if he was going crazy.

No, she told him, she'd started to go back over everything too.

And this gradual sickening feeling was creeping over her.

Bill was going through the same process and he was particularly worried because he knew that cameras were about to descend on Hay Farm.

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