Sébastien doesn't know who this strange dark man, darker even than Sébastien's mother, is. But the man seems to know him. Maybe he's a new master at school?

He'd just been at school, and now he's...here. In a room. A very strange room, with all kinds of shiny strange things that look like tools. Sébastien would trot over to inspect them, but the man has asked him a question, and it's impolite to ignore him.

"Yes, monsieur," he says. "If you please, where are we?"

He gives the other boy, who seems very shy, a smile.