The very first paragraphs of my next novel - The Blue Bricks Part I. Fresh off the paper! I just finished typing the first 100 pages up the other day!

“We’re getting out” and Alvarez’s eyes glinted in the dead light of the search beams.

“But where?” the reply was inevitable, for they were quite trapped - inside the city, which was inside the walls, which were inside the world, and as he spoke Anier hesitated, falling a little behind as Alvarez advanced.

“The city quarters” although Alvarez’s eyes were fixed upon no object in particular, rather they probed into the night as if some mighty truth or inevitable destination would finally reveal it...