seconds dragged on into minutes, minutes dragged on into hours, and hours just seemed to keep going, and going, swirling grey foggyness interspersed with vivid dreams and nightmares... he was five, in his village playing tag with the other children, he was eight, failing horrendouly in a maths test... he was ten.... he was ten, and his life had changed, his parents abandoned him, his brother the only person in his family who knew where he was....