the story so far…
The story so far
I’ve just posted posted Out, the next chapter in book one of the Lights in the sky series. Chapter one, the Light, introduced the six children and their mentor, Nurse Gee, parachuting us into the action at a critical moment. The crisis brought about by the astronomical and climatic phenomenon, the children call ‘Light-out’, forces Marta to grow up and take adult responsibility for the first time, while laying bare some of the tensions that lie beneath the surface of her little community.
In Behind the door, we found out more about the hidden agendas that lie beneath the facade of the Alpha Mission. Marta pokes her nose in where she really shouldn’t (as ever), and in consequence achieves a conceptual breakthrough that changes the lives of all of them.
Whereas chapter two explored the inner workings of the place where the children live, Out, as the name indicates, explores the alien world that lies beyond the Dome, and we begin to discover something about the indigenous lifeforms of Alpha 5.
We’ll learn much more about them in later chapters…
Ta ta for now…