The Unity Game by Leonora Meriel

Author:Leonora Meriel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction/science fiction
ISBN: 9781911079446
Publisher: Granite Cloud
Published: 2017-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Elspeth put down the book. She had felt something unusual while she was reading. It was something in the words, the scenes, moving inside her, stirring an idea to remembrance. She felt as if she had read or known the words before, but not from a book. As if it were bringing back a life experience from her past, but one she couldn’t quite catch in her conscious mind. She pushed herself off the wall and looked at her watch. 4 p.m. She had been sitting there most of the day. She really was hungry now. She stretched her legs and stepped over to the bus stop. Dozens of buses must have gone by while she had been reading. No matter; she liked walking.

The afternoon sun was lighting up the flowers in the front gardens of the houses, and London looked sleepy and peaceful on this late, spring Saturday. Elspeth held the book in her hand as she walked. Something was changing. Somehow, what she had just read made more sense to her than anything else in her life right now. And nothing in her life had made any sense for a long time. For years it had felt as if everyone had a plan, an understanding of what they were meant to do, some kind of structural belief system in which they functioned. Everyone except for her. It just felt as if she were drifting, without any knowledge at all of the plan, without even having a plan, without any conception of what she was meant to be doing. It was a horrible, empty feeling, if she would admit it to herself. Maybe that was the reason she’d spent so long around drugs. At least they took away the emptiness – filled her with a kind of passive lift in the place of nothing at all.

And then that visit for Grandad’s eightieth birthday party, when his love had awakened a possibility she had not felt for a long, long time. The idea that her life could have some value, in some way, to someone. It was an incredible thought. And for the sake of that thought, she had moved to London, she had followed that small spark of hope and it had proved to be real. Grandad had wanted her in his life. And, best of all – most unexpectedly of all – he hadn’t tried to change her. He hadn’t criticised anything about her past, however much he knew. He had offered his love and his help and nothing else. And against all odds, when she had never let her parents or even her friends help her with anything, she had let him find her a flat, a job, put together some strands of a life.

And now she had this feeling, reading the book which Grandad had left her in his will – this book and most of his personal library and some money – enough for a deposit on a flat or to set herself up in something.

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