She would have laughed a lot. And God, how much Ove misses that laugh.
He walks up towards the parking area with the cat. Checks all the signposts by giving them a good kick.
Tugs at the garage doors. Makes a detour over the guest parking and then comes back. Checks the trash room.
As they come back between the houses alongside Ove’s toolshed,
Ove sees something moving down by the last house on Parvaneh and Patrick’s side of the road. At first Ove thinks it’s one of the party guests,
but soon he sees that the figure is moving by the shed belonging to the dark house of that recycling family.
They, as far as Ove knows, are still in Thailand. He squints into the gloom to be sure that the shadows are not deceiving him,
and for a few seconds he actually doesn’t see anything.
But then, just as he’s ready to admit that his eyesight is not what it used to be, the figure reappears. And behind him, another two.
And then he hears the unmistakable sound of someone tapping with a hammer at a window that’s covered in insulation tape.
Which is how one minimizes the noise when the glass shatters.
Ove knows exactly what it sounds like; he learned how to do it on the railways
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