5/24/2023 0 Comments Closer roderick gordon![]() ![]() The Rebeccas find the city, and realise it is well maintained and populated. The story returns to Chester, who wakes up, finding Martha, who just killed a bird. The Rebeccas then continue to march toward the city. Under the surface, Rebecca Two sees a Limiter flare, and then signals back by blowing up a gas tank. When he demands an explanation, she claims she was shielding him from a Bright. Suddenly, Martha grabs him, and Chester panics, going as far as to hit her. ![]() The point of interest flips back to Chester, when they are walking through the night. Meanwhile, back in the centre of the planet, the Rebeccas come across a modern metropolis, with helicopters and other vehicles, including cars resembling Volkswagens. This frightens Chester, who begins to make a plan to run away from her, but in the event doesn't dare put this into practice. She dotes obsessively on the boy, seeing him as a substitute for her dead son. Chester and Martha return Topsoil, where Chester is inevitably very eager to contact his parents, but Martha won't permit this. In the world with its own sun in the centre of the Earth, the Rebecca twins had dived into a pool in order to escape an explosion set off by Will and Elliott, and eventually are able to survive by breathing air they find trapped in the roof of some underground workings. The story picks up following the events of Freefall. ![]() ![]() It is preceded by Freefall and is followed by Spiral. Closer is the fourth book in the Tunnels series, released in 2010. ![]()
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