Fireraiser by Torkil Damhaug

Author:Torkil Damhaug [Damhaug, Torkil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472206862
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2015-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Had he not checked beforehand, Dan-Levi would have thought that the woman who opened the door to him was well under fifty. She had dark brown hair and only a few lines around her eyes. As they shook hands, she looked directly at him. Secure, that was the first word that occurred to him. He didn’t make a habit of judging women as members of their sex, but Elsa Wilkins had been and indeed still was a woman he would unhesitatingly have described as attractive. He allowed himself a good look at her as she led him into the living room, all what you might call part of the assignment. She was almost as tall as he was, and decidedly feminine in shape. Dan-Levi had always liked buxom women and didn’t mind it at all when Sara began putting on weight each time she was pregnant. He thought it suited her, skinny thing that she was normally.

– So you call yourself a Parotist? he said once he had sat down on the sofa.

– Tarotist, Elsa Wilkins corrected him with a smile as she handed him a cup of herbal tea. – I also hold courses in other subjects.

– Courses?

– Self-development, meditation, getting in touch with yourself.

– I see, he said, picking up his notebook and writing down a couple of key words as he stemmed a tide of critical questions. His greatest strength as a journalist was probably his ability to get on well with the people he interviewed. People trusted him quickly and often told him more than they had intended. But he was careful about how he used this talent. No one should feel they had been exploited.

– And is that something you can earn a living from? He didn’t reveal that he had checked her income beforehand in the tax office listings. – From tarot and meditation and that kind of thing?

– It’s probably the same as with anything else, she said, gliding her fingers through her hair and tucking it behind her ear on one side. – If you’re good at what you do and work hard, you can go as far as you want. It’s probably the same in your job too.

Without him having to ask, she then began to talk about a centuries-old wisdom that had survived both the prohibitions of the Church and the arrogance of modern times. She talked about the collective unconscious and about archetypes, something Dan-Levi vaguely remembered reading about at university. She spoke about developing one’s intuition, about finding different ways towards a knowledge of oneself. Hard to object to stuff like that. He chose to leave out the most critical questions he had intended to put to her, questions he had obliged both the healer and the angel school graduate to wrestle with. But nothing this woman said would have caused Pastor Jakobsen to raise his eyebrows.

Dan-Levi moved carefully over into the personal sphere.

– Wilkins, that’s not a typical Norwegian name?

She was silent for a moment. – My ex-husband is English.

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