“Where the fuck is the shed?” you say.
“It was Nick Timothy,” says Ridley. “He tried to fix the canister from the gas heater to the lawnmower and make it fly. At about 3am there was an explosion and the shed was just gone." He's pauses. "Nick too.”
“What the hell were you lot thinking last night?” you say. “The place is destroyed.”
Esther pushes past you. “I wasn’t here," she mumbles.
It is a bare-faced lie.
“Okay okay,” says Dan.
He gets to his feet and disappears downstairs. A minute later you follow him down. The front door is open.
The house is empty.