“But they only really have to speak to Nora. So you can get an early night if you want.”
Ravi shrugged, dejected. “Sure. Yeah.” Joanna sighed.
“Don’t shoot the messenger. Though it’s never stopped you before.”
Nora wondered again where her brother was, but the tension between Joanna and Ravi made it feel wrong to ask something she should so obviously know.
So she stared out of the window as the coach drove along the four-lane highway.
The glowing tail-lights of cars and lorries and motorbikes in the dark, like red and watching eyes.
Distant skyscrapers with a few tiny squares of light against a humid backdrop of dark sky and darker clouds.
A shadowy army of trees lined the sides and middle of the highway, splitting the traffic into two directions.
If she was still in this life tomorrow evening, she would be expected to perform an entire concert’s worth of songs,
most of which she didn’t actually know. She wondered how quickly she could learn the set list.
Her phone rang. A video call. The caller was ‘Ryan’.
Joanna saw the name and smirked a little. “You’d better get that.”
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