Ove kicks a little at a baseboard, then turns around and goes into the kitchen to put the pill bottle in a cupboard.
Then he makes coffee and pours water in a bowl for the cat. They drink in silence.
Ove picks up the empty bowl and puts it next to his coffee cup in the sink.
He stands with his hands on his hips for a good while. Then turns around and goes into the hall.
“Tag along, then,” he urges the cat without looking at it. “Let’s give that village cur something to think about.”
Ove puts on the navy winter jacket, steps into his clogs, and lets the cat walk out the door first.
He looks at the photo of Sonja on the wall. She laughs back at him.
Maybe it’s not so enormously important to die that it can’t wait another hour, thinks Ove, and follows the cat into the street.
He goes to Rune’s house, where it takes several minutes before the door opens.
There’s a slow, dragging sound inside before anything happens with the lock, as if a ghost is approaching with heavy chains rattling behind it.
Then, finally, it opens and Rune stands there looking at Ove and the cat with an empty stare.
“You got any corrugated iron?” wonders Ove, without allowing any time for small talk.
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