The Storm Episode Three by Albert Sartison

Author:Albert Sartison [Sartison, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Sartison
Published: 2015-07-22T23:00:00+00:00

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The acerbic taste enveloped her tongue and she could feel the cool drink running down to her stomach. Kate took the glass from her lips to admire the colour of the wine it contained. Now, when night had fallen on Tenerife, it was not red in the light of the Moon and stars, as it would have been in sunlight, but pitch black. It had its own particular taste and bouquet. The quite ordinary wine she knew so well now seemed to her like a drink of the Gods. It is surprising that the sensation produced by wine is more influenced by state of mind than its actual taste.

According to her calculations, by this afternoon the tanker should have been close enough to Tenerife for a helicopter taking off from it to reach her without risk of its fuel running out over the ocean. Navigation was more difficult now since you couldn’t fully rely on instruments, so you could only set off over the open ocean with a large reserve of fuel. If everything was going according to plan, the helicopter should already be on its way.

Venturing outside onto the helicopter pad for the first time in some days, Kate kept peering into the distance, trying to make out the lights of the rescue helicopter.

When the state of emergency had been declared on television, Kate had trembled in fear. With time, particularly since she had known that people were coming to her aid, the fear had passed. And in all that time, in spite of her panicky expectations, no stranger had appeared here. There was probably no-one on the island (since Jerome had gone to South Africa) who would think about such a stupid thing as coming here by road. When chaos rules in the country and gasoline can’t be bought anywhere, wasting it on an idle trip to the mountains would be the height of folly. And what was there at the observatory that was worth anything? There was heaps of expensive equipment here, but who would want that, if society had returned to the primeval era? It was just a totally useless collection of cabinets with wires inside.

Her mind seemed to be clearer today. All the fear that had enveloped her at the beginning suddenly seemed to her so stupid, so illogical. She had even plucked up the courage to dine on the helicopter pad. Just like old times, when she used to sit here enjoying the view, and not with her head filled with cowardly thoughts.

Despite the fact that life on Earth had finally and irrevocably changed, up here everything looked as it always had. Nothing had changed. A cold dry wind blew, the stars and the Moon still shone in the heavens, all in their proper place. They would soon fly in for her and she would leave this cold place for somewhere where there were people. Somewhere where she could calmly get on with her work without fearing for her life.

Canada... She had only been

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