Cold Fear by Mads Peder Nordbo

Author:Mads Peder Nordbo [Nordbo, Mads Peder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2019-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Símin opened the door fully when he came back, letting more light into the cell.

Arnaq unzipped her backpack and checked it. It was clear that somebody had rifled through it, but nothing was missing. She took her back-up mobile from a closed side pocket at the bottom of her backpack and connected it to a small powerbank. In one of the backpack’s external side pockets there was a freezer bag tied with a knot. It contained a SIM card from an Icelandic mobile company. It was wrapped in a yellow sticky note with the activation code.

Lars had given it to her, saying that on a good day the Icelandic reception was just a tad better than Greenland’s TelePost.

She slotted the SIM card in place and entered the code. As with her other mobile, which had a Greenlandic SIM card, there was no 3G network. But there was a single telephone coverage bar. One out of four.

‘Is that you?’ Símin studied the small mobile with interest. It was an old Samsung. The background picture on glowing screen showed Arnaq and Alma outside their school in Denmark.

Arnaq looked briefly into his pale blue eyes. ‘Símin, do you know where the other girl is?’

He shook his head and looked at the mobile. Carefully he touched the screen. It changed under his fingertip and he let out a gasp of surprise and looked at Arnaq.

‘It’s just like television,’ she said, pressing her playlist. ‘Listen.’

‘We don’t listen to music,’ Símin said with a glance at the door.

‘I’m sorry,’ Arnaq said, switching the music off. ‘Only it’s so quiet here.’ Her voice had grown thick. ‘Let me try something else.’

She pressed her mother’s number, but nothing happened. She tried it again and on her third attempt it rang. The connection was poor, but it did ring.

Her mother’s voice could be heard softly.

‘Help,’ Arnaq whispered. Her throat contracted. ‘I don’t know where I am, but we haven’t sailed anywhere.’ The tears streamed down her cheeks and her upper body convulsed. ‘I love you, Mum.’ Else’s voice was drowned out by white noise. Arnaq sobbed.

‘What is it?’ Símin said, taking the mobile from her.

‘No…Símin.’ She reached out her arm. Her gaze was desperate. Dissolving. ‘It’s mine.’

He knocked her hand aside and raised the mobile to his face. Else’s voice spoke from the small mobile. She was shouting. She sounded agitated. Símin looked at the glowing screen. He could make out the picture of Arnaq and Alma. ‘Demons,’ he yelled, hurling the mobile onto the floor, where it shattered.

Arnaq collapsed in floods of tears. Her whole body was trembling. She felt Símin’s fingers touch her cheek. Very carefully. He nudged her tears with the tips of his fingers.

The light disappeared for a second, but then returned along with a roar.

Both of them jumped in fear.

‘The devil’s spawn,’ Bárdur thundered as his hand shot towards Símin, and he picked the young man up from the floor by the scruff of his neck as though he was nothing but a ragdoll. ‘She’s unclean.

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