18/02/2026 14:29

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I don't know. You cannot go back to being human. When I woke I was alone, tangled up in the sheets, feeling desperately ill. Moving through it— half-swimming, half-flying—was a dizzying rapture.

Anne's father, Dr Saunders, stood quietly, not intervening, but Anne had had more than she could stand. It is like walking in the sky, but it can also be dangerous. Karl, let me go, she cried, breathless with fear. into the past? Madeleine was staying with friends in London, and Charlotte hadn't seen Anne or David for weeks.