Out the drive and onto the road

In this final snippet we set the wheels (both literally and figuratively) in motion for the Bad Event to happen.

But Dad's only going to town for an hour. It's business for Mr Cherry. And there he goes, out the drive and onto the road.

This snippet links with the previous snippet: Mum believes you should say goodbye to someone properly because you might never see them again—but Dad’s only going to town for an hour. So Ort is rejecting Mum’s belief in the previous snippet.

Rejecting the belief & Expansion: Have the narrator reject the secondary character's belief in the previous snippet.

Victim departs: Send the victim on their fateful way.

But she’ll have time. It’s an easy delivery. An American has forgotten their passport. Pick it up in City Square and drop it off at Makadara Yards. Imani tips her chin back at us as the door swings shut, kwaheri, then she’s on her bike and away.

But Grandma insists on sleeping in her own bed. She’s a sweet but stubborn old lady. So she sets off, down the snowy path and into the darkening woods.

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