‘The things that will make us happy.’ Mrs Elm rotated the chessboard through one hundred and eighty degrees.
She was, it appeared, playing against herself. ‘Yes,’ said Nora. ‘It is. But what happens to her? To me? How does she end up?’
‘How do I know? I only know today. I know a lot about today. But I don’t know what happens tomorrow.’
‘But she’ll be there in the bathroom and she won’t know how she got there.’
‘And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did?
Have you never blanked out or misremembered what you were just doing?’
‘Yes, but I was there for half an hour in that life.’
‘And that other you won’t know that. She will remember what you just did and said. But as if she did and said them.’
Nora let out a deep exhale. ‘Dan wasn’t like that.’
‘People change,’ said Mrs Elm, still looking at the chessboard. Her hand lingered over a bishop.
Nora re-thought. ‘Or maybe he was like that and I just didn’t see it.’
‘So,’ wondered Mrs Elm, looking at Nora. ‘What are you feeling?’ ‘Like I still want to die. I have wanted to die for quite a while.
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