The Uninvited

Professor Whybray. ‘We’re talking aboutdramatically altered states, after all. Youjust have to look at them to see somethingradical has occurred to their whole mentallandscape. No reason why that shouldn’thave repercussions on the whole system.In fact, it might even be odd if it didn’t.My feeling is, if we can work out wherethese children believe they are, we’ll getto the bottom of who they are. Or rather,who they think they are. And who theythink w e are. Because it’s quite clearwe’re two quite different tribes.’ One sideof his mouth twists upward. ‘Each ofwhich believes its own reality to be thesupreme one. Quite a metaphysicalconundrum.’‘When Freddy talked about JonasSvensson’s death, he said, You made us