Epilogue: 5 Years Later

I ran, O I ran, but they grey wolf ran faster

O mother, I cry in the air at thy door.

Cry shoo! now cry shoo! but his fangs were so cruel,

Thy son (save his hatchet) thou’lt never see more.

Walter De La Mare.

It took doctors days to work out what had happened to Edward Addison. At first it was assumed he was catatonic because had been affected by the drugs in the factory but a toxicology screen came back negative, he was also negative for alcohol and every other intoxicant or poison the doctors could think of. It was only when the nurses on the ward were turning him over to wash his hair that the minute puncture wound in his hair at the base of his skull was discovered. A brain scan revealed that his brain was functioning normally but his spinal cord had been severed by a long thin implement paralysing him and nothing could be done to repair it. He spent a couple of months in hospital but after that he had to be moved to a nursing home.

As his assets had been frozen and his wife