A Girl Runs Away From Her Hostel

Four of our numbers were missing with four telltale empty chairs denoting their absence. In my mind a girl had obviously ran away, gotten so homesick that she'd ran from the hostel in some misguided attempt to hitchhike back to England or something. We didn't learn of what really had happened until we got back to England and the media frenzy began. You see, Caroline hadn't simply died during the night. She… she died during the day. I don't know how to tell you this and I'm so so sorry that I have to. But Caroline is gone. The truth was far far worse.