The Secret Lives of Emails.docx by A.J. Ramsey

Author:A.J. Ramsey [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Together again

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Brittany kept a steady and sure pace as Emal followed her around the tubes.

“Why are you going to see He-Who-Must-Always-Be-Named?”

“Because I need to tell him something.”

“What do you need to tell him?”

“Something that he needs to know.”

“What does he need to know?”

Brittany sighed. “Are our conversations always going to go like this? You ask questions, and I have to answer them?”

“Well,” Emal said, “I was under the impression that is how most conversations go. Besides, you’re the one who knows things. If you remember, I am fairly new here. So, what do we need to tell this mystery person?”

“I don’t know where you’re getting we from all of the sudden; you’re just coming along out of the goodness of my heart. And, just for future reference, most conversations actually involve contributions from both sides. A discussion where I simply answer questions is just another stupid plot device to provide readers with details. But, I digress. I need to tell He-Who-Must-Always-Be-Named about all these brick walls,” Brittany said, gesturing around them.

“You mean he doesn’t know about the tubes? How could he be the creator of this place and not know about those? This guy can’t be that special.”

“Not the normal tube walls, idiot, the brick walls with the little openings. You know, like the one you ran your pretty little nose into.”

“Oh yeah. Just like the one I found you stuck in. I found a few more of those walls right before I heard you in an argument to the death with a troll,” Emal shot back, hoping to score some points of his own in this duel of a conversation.

“Well, there are a lot more of those walls that you probably didn’t see,” Brittany said as she pulled out a notebook from her backpack. She flipped open a few pages, consulting some notes and muttering to herself.

“You made a note in that notebook when I first met you,” Emal said.

“You have an amazing memory for details,” Brittany said rather meanly.

“What are you writing down?”

“Notes.”

“Seems an odd place for them. What are the notes about?”

“The location of these brick walls,” she responded curtly.

Brittany resumed their trek without another word. Emal noticed as they continued on that she kept to the older and less trafficked tubes. He decided to ask her why despite the potential for a blistering response.

“Because I hate crowds,” Brittany said simply.

She also appears to hate civil conversation, Emal thought.

Emal attempted to walk in silence for a while since he realized that he was to Brittany what Jeeves had been to him. Annoying. He was quickly bored though. After enduring the silence for as long as he could, he decided it was time for more questions.

“Why do you hate crowds?”

“I just can’t take them anymore,” she said. “I’ve had my fair share over the years. This place keeps getting more crowded every year.”

“How long have you been here? In the Internet, I mean.”

“I know what you meant,” she said with an exaggerated sigh. “I suppose I can indulge you for a bit.

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