The Way It Breaks by Polis Loizou

Author:Polis Loizou [Loizou, Polis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cloud Lodge Books
Published: 2021-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

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The vessel pulled away from the port to a volley of Arabic between the sailors. Bulky, skinny, tall or short, the men passed anacondas of rope as if they were spider webs. Other men yelled in Greek from smaller boats, coast guard or pilots. The whole of Cyprus slid off into the horizon. Would they see the Turkish side at all? Would it be visibly different from the Greek? Her breath soared. Freedom was the sea, the realm of being and nothingness, this deep dark womb from which all life began. She shut her eyes and inhaled it all.

Eva called Orestis to her. ‘Come on, let’s do Titanic like losers.’ She stood against the rail with her arms spread out. ‘Not like that, what are you doing? He was holding her arms, you brick.’

‘You want this ship to be the Titanic?’

‘Of course. Don’t I look like Kate Winslet?’ She struck a pose that Darya vaguely recognised from the film’s nude scene. ‘I’m telling you, naked we’re exactly the same.’

This made Orestis smile in a way Darya had never seen before. He called her Miss Winslet and she thanked Leonardo. A glimpse at their youth, the schoolboy teasing his classmate. Then Eva said, not very quietly, ‘And she’s the old woman with the diamond.’

The Russian Whore pretended not to have heard.

‘Come on, then,’ Orestis said. ‘Throw the diamond in.’

‘Fine.’ After a pause, the girl unclasped the silver piece from her wrist and dropped it into the chopped-up waves.

Orestis gasped. He couldn’t stop it.

‘Don’t look at me like that,’ said Eva. ‘I have others.’

Darya turned from her stare.

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