Mirror Worlds by April D Brown

Author:April D Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: April D Brown
Published: 2019-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

Future Beginnings

A Measure of Life

Albine woke early. The sun peeked over the windowsill. Barely in time to hear the rooster crow. Early enough. One more week of measurements, before he'd begin processing years of accumulated data. A chance to really live, and change his own life measurement to one of living more than existing.

After a breakfast of freshly gathered and scrambled eggs, he pulled out his laptop to review his client for the day.

A young woman name Dorianna. A nice name. By the name, he pictured her as a healthy woman who would be busy on a farm, possibly milking cows at the moment. It was a good name for a farm woman.

Next, he reviewed her life facts. No farm. Not even a pet mentioned. She worked for a media company in the city, and had two children. Emelie was thirteen and Henri eleven. Her address was a semi-local suburb.

Albine glanced at his clock. They should be rising any time. He called her home phone. No answer. He prepared to meet her at her home after breakfast as planned.

He ambled outside to his rose garden. Dorianna should be a delightful person. A yellow rose would suit her name. He cut two and placed them in a travel vase for her and her daughter.

He arrived at her home an hour later. No car in the drive. He walked up the door and knocked. No answer. The neighborhood was silent. No cars. No people. No children playing as the summer sun began to climb to midday.

He checked the time. It was 9 am. Time to be awake and going. He called Dorianna's cell phone.

"Hello?" Lots of noise and static made the conversation difficult.

"Hello Dorianna. I'm here to see you."

"You are? Where are you?"

Albine glanced around at the emptiness of the neighborhood. Different from the noisy farm he lived on. "At your home."

She laughed. "I'm at work. Have been for three hours. You'll have to meet me here. I have three meetings in the next hour. I'll try to squeeze a few minutes in to talk to you."

Albine was supposed to shadow her day for a few days to measure her life and be sure her life work balance was healthy. "I'll be there soon." He closed the connection and checked her work address. Nearly an hour drive away. Once the distance data was entered on her Measuring chart, he walked to his car and began the drive of her daily commute.

Traffic was terrible. Dozens of stop lights that only allowed two or three cars through them at a time. People raced through the red lights, preventing the next road from going when they should. A dozen turns, and road name changes before he reached his destination.

Exhausted, he pulled into a pay parking garage and parked. Albine's hands shook as he picked up the tablet. More notes to add to Dorianna's Measuring chart. There were hundreds of points against her life and health before he even met her in person.

Albine walked to the front of the building indicated by her.

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