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sounded like something from a sci-fi movie.
    “Do you believe this boy’s story, Dad?” Wayne asked as his father finished the article.
    “I don’t know. He said his brother disappeared for more than five minutes before he reappeared again on his chair. This story sounded so farfetched that I didn’t forget it. I kept thinking about it. Why would a boy tell such an incredible story? What would he or they gain? Nobody is going to believe them,” Hans explained.
    “But it did get them into the papers . . . ” Wayne observed, thinking aloud.
    Wayne mulled over what his father had said and, noting that the story only ran because the experts couldn’t prove it was faked, Wayne agreed that his father had a point. If something is too farfetched, nobody is going to believe it. So, why take the trouble of telling such a tale?
    “Dad, do you think Tammy’s disappearance has something to do with this article in the newspaper?” he wanted to know.
    Hans shrugged. “She was in front of her computer, too,” he suggested.
    “Heck. Is there any chance that we could contact this boy, Dad? Where do they live?” Wayne looked again at the article. “Sabie!” he announced. He knew Sabie was a town in the Mpumalanga-province in the east of South Africa.
    “I’ll contact the newspaper tomorrow. They’ll have the contact details of the people,” Hans promised. “I hope they will let me have it.”
    “Dad, if you think Tammy disappeared in the same way as the older brother, why hadn’t she appeared again?” Wayne still found the disappear/reappear story highly unlikely.
    “I don’t know. But they were both on their computers. You said it seemed as if Tammy was busy on the Internet, and it looks like she didn’t run away. Her cell phone was lying there. Her purse was still there. All the suitcases and her clothes are accounted for. Perhaps these two cases are linked, except for the fact that Tammy didn’t return after five minutes or so. That’s the only obvious difference, apart from the distance from here to Sabie.”
    “The newspaper stated that the boy who disappeared denied it vehemently,” Wayne muttered almost to himself. “Why vehemently? He could have just denied it. He said he thought his younger brother had fallen on his head. That’s why he had filmed all around the room like a crazy person. Don’t you think it’s strange, Dad?”
    “Yes, but so is Tammy’s disappearance. We’ll try and contact the people, Wayne, but I hope Tammy will turn up real soon,” Hans said and squeezed Wayne’s shoulder a little. “Her mother must be in a dreadful state.”
     

Chapter Six
    TAMMY SAT WITH HER BACK towards Etsu and Hiroshi. She didn’t want to look at them while they were eating raw birds. She was certain it would be a very messy business. She could hear them chew and that alone was enough to make her nauseous. They spoke Japanese to each other and Tammy was relieved that she couldn’t understand them.
    “That was good,” Hiroshi spoke English and Tammy sneaked a quick look at his face. “Not nearly enough, but better than nothing.”
    Etsu was busy licking her fingers clean. Tammy could still see blood speckles on her fingertips. And in front of each of her new friends lay the reddish carcass of a tiny bird.
Goodness, it’s like a vampire movie,
Tammy thought. It made her feel even more nauseous.
    “Is it only the three of us in this place?” she mused aloud to distract herself from the feast. She was becoming hungry too, and she couldn’t afford a weak stomach now. “Did only the two of us play
Snap
? What about the person with the wardrobe?” Tammy asked while she was looking at Etsu.
    “No, during the three days that we have been here a whole lot of people showed up. Mostly kids like us. But there were older people, too,” Hiroshi answered, perhaps because he knew Etsu’s English was not up to a complex discussion. “Their alter egos had overpowered them. Or that’s what we think.