Strings: something big is about to happen... by B A Spicer

Author:B A Spicer [Spicer, B A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: B A Spicer
Published: 2014-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

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“How was it?” asked Hugh, when they were sitting in the car.

She wanted to be flippant, but she decided to box clever. “Helpful. He’s a good listener.” She tried a smile, but it came out as a grimace. Hugh would not be fooled.

“Did you make another appointment?”

“Next week.” If there were a next week!

“Good. I thought we might go to the park. Get some picnic stuff from Marks?”

“Don’t you have to get back?”

“Not until two. What do you say?”

“All right.”

The park was busy, but they found a bench and opened their sandwiches.

“Do you think I’m crazy?” She hadn’t actually asked him directly.

He stopped chewing and looked at her, and in the smallest measurement of time, before he had arranged the expression on his face, she saw that he did.

“No. Of course I don’t think you’re crazy. Christ, Maddy. I just want you to be… more like you used to be, that’s all. I think this research you’re doing is getting to you.” He took her hand.

She resisted the urge to pull it free. “It’s just work, Hugh. I’m really onto something. Something important.”

Some kids were playing marbles on the path, but the surface was too rough, affecting their trajectory. They launched them fast and hard, and were surprisingly accurate, scattering the coloured glass and falling about hysterically when they won, cheering loudly. The very big and the very small.

“You have to try to trust me, Hugh.”

“I know, I know. It’s just that… you talk in your sleep, Maddy.” He blurted out this last comment, looking at her with something like terror in his eyes. “You say things that don’t make sense.”

“What things?” She wanted to know. Why hadn’t he mentioned this before?

“It sounds like another language. And it’s always the same thing. It’s… weird.”

“What do I say, Hugh?”

“I can’t. I can’t say it. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s not English, Maddy. It’s not any kind of language that I can recognise.”

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