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hurried vacation reminiscent

Hurried vacation reminiscent

“Very strange to see another AV kid outside the desert,” he said. “I guess you and I are special.” “But you’ve already been captured,” Duncan pressed. “What more do they need to know?” As the words left his tongue he recognized the trap he had laid for himself. Pushing to understand the secret would be exactly what a spy would do. “I would have to bring Chuga.” Then why didn’t you love me if I was so good? ‘Is he coming to the launch?’ Hickey wanted to know when I got off the call. Almost every spring until Edda was born I came east to the glittering springs that foreign businessmen see as potential, to Grandma in her garden where the trees grow tall and straight: birch, rowan, aspen, silver fir, red spruce, pitch pine, hackberry. Where the flowers spread: meadowsweet, harebell, Icelandic burnet rose, pyramidal saxifrage. An old black Audi A6 came booting up from the rear and overshot us on a blind bend, its registration plates mud-caked to illegibility. Three clipped male heads juddered about in the back seat and one of them turned to eye us. Whatever he said made the others turn to look too and then they were gone.‘Fucken Eastern Europeans,’ Hickey muttered. The Audi was a left-hand drive. Plus the Irish no longer drove cars as old as that. He mumbled something and waited till the road was clear. He had hardly pulled out when he felt himself blushing. The two drivers, who’d noticed his embarrassment, grinned. “I know nothing else. They open each meeting by reading reports, sometimes just from gazettes. The last time it was just a letter from Edmund Burke to the Parliament about colonial affairs.” I hate to leave you behind, Dad. It’s just so sad to leave Dad behind. ‘Here we are now,’ he announced heartily as we pulled up outside the castle. Hickey was a great man for the hollow cheer when trying to end things on a positive note. Here we are now, is it yourself, you’ll be having another, ah ya will! He thought it made him charming, a bit of a character, a lovable rogue, but although he was fooling no one, it was still somehow endearing in its sheer ham-fistedness. His fists of ham and my feet of clay. How did we get so far? Uncertainty’s found in permanent variability. hurried vacation reminiscent I keep myself out of this duet, eat my eggs and bacon, declare it a real feast. His face was tanned and his collar-length hair tossed back in a salty tangle, as if he’d just come ashore after scudding the waves on his speedboat or longboat or yacht. He was rigged out in deck shoes and no socks. Wide-legged trousers in an off-white fabric, like linen only finer, as if fashioned from the fabric of sails. Whatever it took to advertise his nautical status was nailed to his mast. The tails of the setters thumped the floor in welcome when I appeared downstairs, then they remembered themselves and angled worried eyes at Father, who was standing at the window looking out at Hickey’s truck. I had hoped that the castle might be large enough that we should not have to rub up against each other in this fashion. ‘Do you know that…?’ Father groped for a suitable word as he contemplated the hairy spectacle of Hickey. ‘Character,’ he eventually managed. “No. I have to put on some clothes.”.