Meeting Tommy Smith
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 23156
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There, sitting on a bench, was the ten year-old boy who she had found
screaming in the abandoned castle. He had a stunned expression on his
face, as if he still hadn't come to terms with his death.
Andrea sat down next to him. "So she got you too," she said sympathetically. He turned to look at her. "Who are you?" he asked blankly. Andrea realised that, either he had blotted out the horrific events of his last minutes of life, or else he had been so terrified that her arrival on the scene hadn't even registered. "I'm Andrea Croix," she said. She assumed that titles one had once had no longer applied in the afterlife, and in any case it wasn't the time for formality. "I'm Tommy - Tommy Smith," the boy responded. "Do you remember what happened to you when you died?" Andrea asked him as gently as she could. Perhaps she could find out how he had come to be in the castle, apparently with no adult to look after him. "Died?" he queried. "Am I dead, then? Are all these people dead? I don't want to be dead, Andrea. I'm frightened. I want my mummy and daddy." He started crying, and she cradled his head in her arms and comforted him as best she could. When she looked up again:
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JH
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