A Deep Blue Sky

Chapter 3 - ‘Dimming’ Dead eyes, are you just like me? Cause her eyes were as vacant as the seas – Smashing Pumpkins, By Starlight Saj and El were nigh on inseparable after that day in the nurses office, and less than a year later their friendship was concrete. Where there was one, you’d find the second. Some of the crueller kids at the school, spearheaded by Thomas Prince, called them the fag and shadow whenever they were seen, but the surprising thing was that weren’t seen often. In fact, if it weren’t for Thomas Prince and his sustained campaign of hatred against the boys, the two would have been left to their own devices and forgotten. Prince was infuriated that he had had to keep refocusing his group of cronies on the boys. Things had marginally improved for Thomas Prince, in that he was no longer shunned by all at the school. After his return to the school, originally ostracised from his peer group because of his vile temper and his perceived racist leanings, he ha

Chapter 2 - T he Surviving Troll The choir softly sing; Three lullabies in an ancient tongue, For the court of the crimson king – Yes, In the Hall of The Crimson King Sajin stood next to his locker, wondering what to do next. He’d pocketed the floor plan of the building and his timetable, and now his arms were full of books. He couldn’t get to them with his locker closed and locked. He was considering just how to juggle the five thick textbooks around to under one arm so he could get to his pockets when he noticed the boys walking up to him. Before he could react his textbooks were spilling out of his hands, he groped wildly for them, knocking some further away, managing to catch first one and then two with graceless swipes of his hands when suddenly he started to fall as things went a deep blue, pain lashed across his head and the blue faded to black. He came to later in a hospital bed, his mother, father and twin sister around him. They explained who had attacked him,

PART ONE Chapter 1 – Marked indelibly A kiss goodbye, your twisted shell As rice grains and roses fall at your feet – My Chemical Romance, Drowning Lessons When they were 11 years old, twins Sajan and Raveena Thapa had moved from Rochdale to South Manchester, leaving behind their cousins, close friends and schoolmates so their father could start a new job as the headmaster of the local secondary school. The twins now looked back at their time in Rochdale with rose tinted glasses, the memories they had were of friends and of good times, but their parents Talwar and Garima Thapa remembered things slightly differently. A time marked indelibly by thinly veiled racism, a time of scraping by and a time of tension in a home built for 4 but holding 6. Talwar Singh Thapa and his four children, the eldest brother Shoorveer, daughter Katha and the young twins Raveena and Sajan had left their small and cramped home and moved into a much larger house in a town on the inner side of the ring

A Dark Blue Sky Prelude – The Light Was Mesmeric Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man Though my mind could think I still was a madman I hear the voices when I’m dreaming, I can hear them say – Kansas, Carry on My Wayward Son @Saj_balla Hey  @killer_Art19  where r u bro? need to talk! @killer_Art19 @Saj_balla  wifi only here, with  @am_Rf_ru  will call tonight @Saj_balla @killer_art19 @am_RF_ru  need ur help, call me asap Arthur Killaine sat astride the worn leather sofa leg, staring at the screen of his mobile phone. The Wi-Fi strength strong, but as always as soon as he walked into Reese’s apartment he lost all phone signal, which Art put down to steel bars and concrete in the walls. He’d once read an article online explaining how you got these “dead air spaces” in older buildings when the wrong materials were used, and in Reese Finnago’s apartment, all the connectivity had to come from without and routed within. Cables stretched across th