The Hidden People

Chapter 18

I’ve added Chapter 18 to The Hidden People, featuring a disastrous funeral:

• Chapter 1: The Café

• Chapter 2: The Pickles

• Chapter 3: The well, again

• Chapter 4: A strange place

• Chapter 5: Capture

• Chapter 6: The Bone King

• Chapter 7: An awkward conversation

• Chapter 8: Méabh

• Chapter 9: The Prince of Skulls

• Chapter 10: A drink or two

• Chapter 11: Signs of Henny

• Chapter 12: Blood Crows

• Chapter 13: A brother is found

• Chapter 14: The scrying ring

• Chapter 15: The Tower of Skulls

• Chapter 16: The Pact of Blood and Bone

• Chapter 17: An uncomfortable dinner

• New: Chapter 18: An ill-omened funeral¹

1. The name of this chapter suddenly reminded me of an incident when I was about 10 or 11, when we went to a pub in Beechworth in country Victoria. I wrote in my diary, “[Name of pub] is a place of ill-omen for me. Last time I was here I almost choked to death on a fish bone. This time I nearly died of intergestion {sic].”

I may have been a somewhat melodramatic child. My poor parents.