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Reviews Of Young Adult Novels, Mainly Those Prominently Featuring Vampires, And Containing At Least One Love Triangle, Chapter 3:
Unknown Quantities:
* Gender. (But she's a she.)
* Species. (But she's a troll.)
* Age.
* Where she is.
* The precise nature of most of her myriad terrifying problems.
* Seriously, where is she?
Rose sat at her computer in the dark and considered the problem. Given the nature of the conversation which she'd just had, conventional wisdom suggested that she should not be sitting in a dark room, but that was what she spent a lot of her time doing. She didn't often see her home brightly-lit, these days, and when she did she was most often very tired, lending it an alien texture like an old photograph or the sea-bottom.
She hesitated for a moment before contacting her mother. The need to do so always felt unwanted. It seemed childish to contact her when frightened, and so she had for years tried to avoid doing so.
But she didn't really know much about computers.