Chương 72: Ch 40a – Memory: Opportunities

It is see-your-breath-cold. It must have been icy overnight; grit has been spread across the platform. The dirty pink salt and rock crunch under her boots. She takes up her position to the left of the lamppost on the opposite platform. A prime position for the first set of doors of the third carriage for the 7: 32 to Waterloo. Cheerful Guy makes his way down the platform. He nods a never-spoken hello at her. She nods back. He always boards at the rear of second carriage.

They have changed the advert on the big billboard behind the lamppost. A smiling couple drink champagne on an aeroplane as the sun sets beyond clouds through the window behind them. This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. Quantas now flying direct to Australia twice a day from Heathrow. Maybe she will go. Disappear. See the other side of the world. Have an adventure. Perhaps it would give her a connection with life.

Ignite a will to risk more, to feel more. She could blitz her credit card. She hasn't much to lose. One day. Perhaps.