The following episode deals with themes and depictions of self harm that may be triggering for some audiences.
Listener discretion is advised.
Q Code presents Soft Voice Starring Naomi Scott, Olivia Cook and Belle Powley Created by James Blore.
It was an ordinary day and Sunny and Lydia hadn't slept.
Lydia hadn't slept because she'd been awake all night thinking about the poem from Jean, the poem written in blood.
Somehow Lydia knew that today was going to be a big day, perhaps the very biggest of them all, though she couldn't figure out precisely why or what or how.
As you know, ordinarily, when she couldn't figure out exactly why or what or how, Lydia asked me, but I was greeted with a terrifyingly unusual sound.
Silence.
Lydia did not say a single word to me, not one single word all morning.
Today was, of course, a day of Granny Night Night's memorial service.
A polished black car crawled through High Holbo, past the Bleeding Heart Tavern, past Gray's Inn, all the way along Ely Place, and right up to the Catholic Church of St.
Januarius.
Out of the car step Jane, Lydia's mother and Mark, Lydia's father and Uncle Rick, Lydia's uncle, and Graham with an E, Lydia's boyfriend and Jeanie, Lydia's puppy, and finally, Lydia herself.
Jane helped Mark into his wheelchair and began to push him towards the church doors.
Uncle Rick followed, adjusting his black tie.
Lydia trailed behind with Graham with an E, who carried her puppy, Genie.
At the entrance to the church stood the priest, Father Gruffyd, who greeted them with a smile.
Welcome, welcome, God be with you, said Father Gruffyd.
Thank you, Father, said Jane, marching into the church, pushing the wheelchair, Uncle Rick at her side.
Lydia dipped her fingers in the holy water, dabbing her forehead, chest, and shoulders, and followed her family down the aisle, looking up at the saints and the martyrs and the stained glass.