all of the strangers are gone

Isla quite likes the surgeries and names of organs, thank you very much - it isn't her fault if Sunjata objects to her pointing out where each and every one of those organs are in his body, and what happens when they stop working. (She just can't win, if you ask her). Regardless, as he settles in beside her and she flicks open to the first chapter, the story begins as all good mysteries should - with a myurdur. And so what if it takes Isla a little longer to get through chapter one, given that she pauses to tell Sunjata about the real circumstances of this imaginary person's death based on the wounds the inexperienced writer has given them. "At least," she adds, before delving back into the story proper, "if anything spooky does show up this Longnight, you'll know how to murder them properly." Silver linings and all, right? ISLA