"Nice to meet you," I said, looking down at myself. I'd fallen asleep in front of the video game console again and my clothes -- jeans and a shirt -- looked quite rumpled. But that was better than many alternatives. I pulled myself up and looked around. "It's a house," I said. "Definitely not one of our huts. I don't think we're on the Island anymore."

Then a little voice at the back of my mind, which had been holding up its hand a while, started waving it and going 'Ooo! Ooo!'

"Wait... I said 'Valkyrie'. And you said it too." I looked at Bella. "We heard her voice, didn't we?"