That last one was the last page.  But...I didn't put this image here.  I didn't - did I?  I remember spelling it out, letter by letter, like they tell me to.  Singing the song that helps. 

The streets of London, grey eminence intelligences in their high tower over the Court road  - caught road - singing information webs across the city - opposing the shifting grey ones in their quiet - we all went to AUSTRALIA, acronym Heaven.  Corporation Underworld, Hades fills in forms and stamps your rent book - he's there, too big eyes and grey fur, running down the fences - at night, at the bottom of your garden - look, it's your window he's outside -

Nine names - Nonadei - I - She went outside, bigger and wider, saw the edges of space and the greatest terror and oh, when you forget to be afraid, it's so beautiful -

That's the message.  Just that - ends of space and time, but still a quiet school afternoon in the sun that you forgot because it was just peace and stillness - don't you remember?  The sounds of happy voices  in the distance -

Focus.

There's a curtain.  Here, next to me, whilst I type.  Got to stay focused on the words now.  Heavy curtain, across one corner of the room.  How long has that been there - why don't I remember - wait, there was one like this when I was so small, not this house though - what - what's behind FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS WORDS  - it's moving - there's a breeze, outside sounds - leaves -

FOCUS going to pull the curtain back and see - there's music there and cold air scares but - but - some scares are better than anything - I have to see -

Just
have
to
see

Who is that? Who's at the door?

                                                                                                              ...so you see, that's why I'm here.

Endpapers 1

Near the old school grounds, there's a canal path.  Leads to a tunnel.  I find myself troubled by that.  Why build a school so near a canal?  The towpath was all speckled tarmac and dock leaves.  I didn't follow it far; it lead to a tunnel, and I didn't much fancy dodging pigeons and rats, or whatever it was in there making all the scrabbling noises.

Funny thing, there was an old warning sign pasted up, half illegible.  Some sort of taking-care-by-the-water thing I suppose.  Just made me laugh, 'cause it said WATCH OUT in big letters, right over the tunnel mouth.

This project is nearly at an end now; I feel like it's run its course and we've done what we needed to.  Here's the first of the endpapers, probably relating to something in one of the missing literacy sections  at a guess.

Page 9

From the History section:  

Page 9: Selective History 

It's in this section that the series'/textbook's mascot first makes an appearance.  Apparently this was a puppet character of some description, but further details are hard to come by; no photographs survive and the cartoon representations in the text have been scribbled or scratched out, as has the character's name, though it appears to start with the letter 'R'.

I wish I knew who owned this copy, or how it ended up where it did.  I went back to the the old school grounds at the end of September; it's just wasteland now, grass and young trees.  I didn't stay long.  Ridiculous as it sounds, I had the feeling that - well, I wasn't exactly being followed, but got the impression that someone was hiding behind the fence at the edge of the cleared site.  I'm certain that I caught a glimpse of someone in grey moving quite fast.  Or possibly some biggish wild animal, a really large cat perhaps.

Page ???

I can't find the numbers any more, but I think that's part of it.  See, I don't know if I'm scared or something else now.

Look, they sent us a map.  Why am I...happy?