Literature
Ground floor
Small hands twist thin green stalks together, just like her mother had shown her a few hours earlier. Her concentration is broken by a sudden cold shiver that was crawling over her body. Looking up she realises that the dark shadow of the tall wall that surrounded their town had fallen over the garden of their home.
Turning around on her bottom, she looks up at the plumpish woman standing over the roses, "Mama?"
She does not turn from her pruning as she answers, "Yes Vivyan?"
"Why is there a wall around the town?" the small girl asks.
"It keeps the monsters out," her mother answers in a crisp tone.
The girls lips tug down in confusion, "
