In the Country by Mia Alvar

Author:Mia Alvar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

“I never learned that one.” John smiled. “How would the sky taste, do you think? If we got close enough?”

“Soft but crunchy,” you said. (You had wondered too.) “And good for breakfast; just a little makes you full.”

You told him somehow you weren’t finished with the city. Something kept you here. The city wasn’t done with you.

“It’s brave, what you decided,” John said. “When you think about it.”

“But I wasn’t thinking, not at all.” You laughed. “Is it brave, or crazy? If I was thinking, I’d go home. I had no job. I had no place to live.”

The job that brought you to him, to this building, was still eighteen years away that day. There would be lucky accidents and Doris and a change of laws and many other rooms to tidy in between. But as it happened, when you backtracked through the gate, and spent some of your last bills on a taxi back into the city, on a crisp, clear day like this one, you came very close to him and didn’t know it. You just didn’t know exactly where to go.

As far as towers went, you hadn’t even been in this land long enough to know the difference between tall and high.

“I want to see the highest building in this town,” you told the driver.

So he brought you here.

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