Ben’s Bits: The Ballad of Bakewell Gaol

How long, now? How long have I been locked in here? One hour, maybe two? One pace, two paces, three … I stop at three, drowning in the exact middle of the dark space of the cell in Bakewell Gaol. They can’t leave me here! Look, this is just a mistake, you don’t understand, we were only … Ben has been arrested for his part in a scheme hatched by Wen to re-site an ancient stone in its original position. If only he had not gone back for the gun…Don and Wen are nowhere to be found and the judge seems to want an example to be made… and Ben is all he has….