I deliberately didn't plot this run out in detail so I'd be surprised at what happened (as I often was back when I wrote Untold Tales regularly). I knew what the situation was going to be and I let the characters determine what happened after that.

So I was quite surprised by a couple of plot twists in chapter five that I just had not seen coming! Those Juniors can creep up on you. I was as caught off guard by the cliffhanger as I hope the readers will be.







Like I said, what happens next is a poster call.







Well, he did volunteer of that Order of the Observing Eye trip with Beanie and Fly-Girl that time.







Here speaks the voice of experience.







Gaz feels like this problem is in bhis wheelhouse. He's happy to sit back and let life wash over him on the outer space trips and when villains want to fight, but when it gets theological he has to take it seriously.




Grimpenghast constructed this hell-dimension to a specification suitable for trapping Kerry; hence the lack of flammable items. It's her personal hell! And the decor theme is "cold, dark, and silent", which Dante would probably locate somewhere in Caina, the icy plain of the 9th and lowest tier of hell, a place reserved for traitors. Dante claimed that amongst the residents frozen face-down in the ice was Mordred, King Arthur's treasonous son. Grimpenghast, however, seems more likely to have tailored the place to match the late-night horror movies is young victims willhave seen.




Lucy is looking for payback for all the times she's been disrespected by her older team-mates, before she goes and wipes out her annoying goody-goody big brother and everything he stands for.




I have just one more chapter to write to finish this - once I work out how to get out of the end of chapter five.