Chapter 1: the day of

What does Espial mean? You may ask yourself. But what matters is not the "what" but who Espial means. Charlie was getting through her teenage years the same way as any other British person; sleeping all day, at the pub all night and occasionally handing in essays on time. Of course, life is undoubtedly never this straightforward as she discovers on what would have been a night to remember because of the drunken memories she should have made with her friends, but ended up being so because she stumbled across a secret the government had tried so hard to disguise. What Charlie does with this information determines how straightforward her life will go on to become.