They were the mummied heathbells of the past summer, originally tender and purple, now washed colourless by Michaelmas rains, and dried to dead skins by October suns.
She could never have believed in the morning that her colourless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope, and that without the arrival of a single visitor.
" That's because it's colourless, " said Ginny in a convincingly exasperated voice, " but if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who didn't believe us."