The Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781787990869)

Any second now. In just a moment the clock would strike 12:00pm, and Russia would wonder why it was that he wasn't able to get out of bed again.

Just wait. It'll only take a second. It's bound to chime eventually. How slow did time move again?

Russia couldn't decide if his clock was broken or if time had slowed. It seemed like a lifetime ago he was actually up and out of bed.

Lately he hadn't been trying very hard. Yet he wasn't sure why he felt this way. He had always been gloomy sure, but never to such an extent that he spent the better half of two weeks in bed.