Doctor Who 858 - History 101 by Mags L. Halliday

Author:Mags L. Halliday [Halliday, Mags L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-07-13T03:46:22+00:00

but what if he was something else? As before, he found himself sobering fast at the realisation he had to be on guard.

‘No,’ he told the Russian, ‘there’s only one version of the truth.’

‘Tell me what you saw at the parc.’

Eleana looked up from her notebook, annoyed. Jueves was standing by her desk, or rather the half of a desk she shared with another writer. She had a stack of reports to sift and work into articles for the next paper, the deadline was starting to press and now she had Anji’s pet journalist asking her questions.

‘There was something – some one – following us through the parc.’

She shrugged and looked back at her work. There was a report that a promi-nent architect had gone mad on a rooftop and had to be led home in a state of terror, claiming the chimneys were watching him. Was that worth a paragraph somewhere? She hoped Jueves would get the hint and leave. Didn’t he have his own work to do? She didn’t want to talk to him. He was a freelancer, string-ing for some newspaper back in the US, feeding the overseas desire for talk of failing revolutions. Oh, he was Spanish, but he wasn’t Catalan. He spoke it well enough, but the odd Castillian word slipped through revealing his origins.

He was excitable, disappearing off to research stories at the least excuse. More interested in entertaining than informing. She’d snuck a look at some of his copy, all fine poetic words creating a picture of Barcelona. He wasn’t here because he believed in the causes, he was here to be a war tourist for the ones too scared to leave their own countries but voracious for the thrill. The way he chased after things reminded her of Miquel, running off down the street after a momentary fancy.

‘Eleana?’ He hadn’t gone away. He’d found a chair and dragged it over so he could sit at her elbow. ‘Tell me the details – it could be important.’

‘What, for Anji’s little project? Or for an amusing piece for New York?’

‘No. For you. Tell me, then you can forget it. You were shaking, Eleana, wild-eyed. I thought you were going to collapse. Just being followed through a parc won’t do that to a person.’

Not normally, no. This was Barcelona though. Eleana had noticed the routinely rotating figures sat in the window of the café opposite the door of the office. Always the same pairs of people, always arriving at the same time each day and hanging about over coffees for hours. La Batalla was being watched.

Notes were being taken of who came and went. She was sure of it. She remembered Joaqu´ın’s comment about the phones. All the information that buzzed about this building, the uses it could be put to. Being followed suggested they 114

History 101

were preparing for something, stepping up the steady smear campaign against the anarchists. And it suggested that she was on the list of targets worth watching. She shrugged at Jueves.

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