“Hey, Nora.” “Hey,” she said, trying not to sound confused.
“What time you start today?” How could she answer that?
“Uh. Oh. Crap. I’ve totally forgotten.” He laughed, a little laugh of recognition, as if her forgetting was quite in character.
“I saw it on the roster. I think it might be eleven.”
“Eleven a.m.?” Kind Eyes laughed. “What’ve you been smoking? I want some.”
“Ha. Nothing,” she said, stiffly. “I’ve not been smoking anything. I just skipped breakfast.”
“Well, see you this arvo...” “Yes. At the... place. Where is it again?”
He laughed, frowningly, and kept walking. Maybe she worked on a whale sight-seeing cruise that operated out of Sydney.
Maybe Izzy did too. Nora had no idea where she (or they) lived, and nothing was coming up on Google,
but away from the ocean seemed the right direction.
Maybe she was very local. Maybe she had walked here, or one of the bikes she saw locked up outside the pool café had been hers.
She rummaged in her tiny clasp wallet and felt her pockets for a key, but there was only a house key.
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