She drank Arctic ale and surprised her colleagues by eating the only vegan option on a menu that included reindeer steak and moose burger.
Nora must have looked tired because quite a few of her colleagues told her that she did,
but maybe it was just that there weren’t many places in the conversation that she could enter with confidence.
She felt like a learner driver at a busy junction, nervously waiting for a clear and safe patch of road.
Hugo was there. He still looked to her like he would rather be in Antibes or St Tropez.
She felt a little uneasy as he stared at her, a little too observed.
On the hurried walk back to their land-based accommodation, which reminded Nora of a university halls of residence
but on a smaller scale and more Nordic and wooden and minimal, Hugo jogged to catch her up and walk by her side.
“It is interesting,” he said. “What is interesting?” “How at breakfast this morning you didn’t know who I was.”
“Why? You didn’t know who I was either.” “Of course I did. We were chatting for about two hours yesterday.”
Nora felt like she was inside some kind of trap. “We were?”
“I studied you at breakfast before I came over and I could see you were different today.”
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