Not a Reassuring Call
Dec. 31st, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanGone!
The word rang in my ears, echoing all the times when I had ever heard it used to mean an absence which could never be undone. But Alfie was still babbling: something about a boat, and a doctor, and being too small to go, and his grandmother missing him if he did, and no one here to let him in. I found my handkerchief and used it on him, gently.
"Now take a deep breaths and then tell me again, slowly, " I ordered.
But Mary interrupted before he had a chance to speak. "John! Someone's broken the lock!"
The word rang in my ears, echoing all the times when I had ever heard it used to mean an absence which could never be undone. But Alfie was still babbling: something about a boat, and a doctor, and being too small to go, and his grandmother missing him if he did, and no one here to let him in. I found my handkerchief and used it on him, gently.
"Now take a deep breaths and then tell me again, slowly, " I ordered.
But Mary interrupted before he had a chance to speak. "John! Someone's broken the lock!"
