‘Be careful,’ the voice said. And Nora turned around to see who was there.
The Librarian
‘Please. You have to be careful.’ The woman had arrived seemingly from nowhere.
Smartly dressed, with short grey hair and a turtle-green polo neck jumper.
About sixty, if Nora had to pin it down. ‘Who are you?’
But before she had finished the question, she realised she already knew the answer.
‘I’m the librarian,’ the woman said, coyly. ‘That is who.’ Her face was one of kind but stern wisdom.
She had the same neat cropped grey hair she’d always had, with a face that looked precisely as it always did in Nora’s mind.
For there, right in front of her, was her old school librarian.
‘Mrs Elm.’ Mrs Elm smiled, thinly. ‘Perhaps.’ Nora remembered those rainy afternoons, playing chess.
She remembered the day her father died, when Mrs Elm gently broke the news to her in the library.
Her father had died suddenly of a heart attack while on the rugby field of the boys’ boarding school where he taught.
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