The lovely Nicole Wilson has challenged me to submit 7 sentences from my 7th page after the 7th line of my work-in-progress manuscript.

Here we go….

I laid horizontal on my side. The first sense of soft, cool, comfort took me away from my problems. As I tried to turn myself on my back, I froze, complete agony instantly reminded me of them again. My back, muscles and skin sizzled with so much pain.

“Stay there and don’t move,” ordered Matron Agatha seeing me wince. “You’ve scraped your back almost clean off. What have you been doing? No! Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know.” Except she did know, and I knew she knew what I got up to, what I always got up to.

There it is. Sebastian is having a tough time already.