“They’ll be okay. They’re looked after. The flowers have water.” And the words echoed in Nora’s mind. They’ll be okay. They’re looked after...
And then Ash said something about going to the cinema tonight and how the babysitter was all arranged and Nora had forgotten completely
but just smiled and tried really hard to hold on, to stay there, but it was happening, it was happening,
she knew it from within every hidden chamber of her being, and there was absolutely nothing she could do to stop it.
Nowhere to Land
“NO!” Unmistakably, it had happened. She was back in the Midnight Library.
Mrs Elm was at the computer. The lights wobbled and shook and flickered overhead in fast arrhythmic blinks.
Nora, stop. Calm down. Be a good girl. I need to sort this out.”
Dust fell in thin wisps from the ceiling, from cracks fissuring and spreading like spider webs woven at unnatural speed.
There was the sound of sudden, active destruction which, in her sad fury, Nora found herself managing to ignore.
“You’re not Mrs Elm. Mrs Elm is dead... Am I dead?”
“We’ve been through this. But now you mention it, maybe you’re about to be...”
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