Falling in Time
“Grizzled and ancient-looking yet surprisingly spry, the old woman was leaning forward to peer through the car’s rain-splattered windscreen.
“That be the turn-off I need, up yonder." The woman sat back and rubbed her hands in glee.
Or so the gesture struck Lindy, flashing another glance at her strange passenger.
In fact, if she’d taken a better look before slowing the rental car that morning, she might not have offered the woman a ride. But she’d appeared harmless enough, hobbling along the edge... of the road with a woven-wicker shopping basket on her arm. It was just too weird that on such a wet and windy day, the crone’s heavy waxed jacket hadn’t shown even a few speckles of rain.
And – Lindy really couldn’t explain this – the woman’s small black boots, jauntily tied with red plaid laces, weren’t at all muddied or damp-stained.
But she did have kindly eyes.
Bright blue eyes that twinkled with merriment as Lindy drove past Sutherland’s great mist-hung hills and through the dismal morning.MoreLess
“That be the turn-off I need, up yonder." The woman sat back and rubbed her hands in glee.
Or so the gesture struck Lindy, flashing another glance at her strange passenger.
In fact, if she’d taken a better look before slowing the rental car that morning, she might not have offered the woman a ride. But she’d appeared harmless enough, hobbling along the edge... of the road with a woven-wicker shopping basket on her arm. It was just too weird that on such a wet and windy day, the crone’s heavy waxed jacket hadn’t shown even a few speckles of rain.
And – Lindy really couldn’t explain this – the woman’s small black boots, jauntily tied with red plaid laces, weren’t at all muddied or damp-stained.
But she did have kindly eyes.
Bright blue eyes that twinkled with merriment as Lindy drove past Sutherland’s great mist-hung hills and through the dismal morning.MoreLess
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