As she spoke, Mrs Elm’s eyes came alive, twinkling like puddles in moonlight.
‘Between life and death there is a library,’ she said.
‘And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.
To see how things would be different if you had made other choices...
Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?’
‘So, I am dead?’ Nora asked. Mrs Elm shook her head. ‘No. Listen carefully. Between life and death.’
She gestured vaguely along the aisle, towards the distance.
‘Death is outside.’ ‘Well, I should go there. Because I want to die.’ Nora began walking.
But Mrs Elm shook her head. ‘That isn’t how death works.’
‘Why not?’ ‘You don’t go to death. Death comes to you.’
Even death was something Nora couldn’t do properly, it seemed.
It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of being incomplete in just about every sense.
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