Let It Bleed
“There was pressure inside his gum and top lip, a dull, unpleasant sensation that was now spreading either side of his nose. It felt as if his whole face should be swollen, but it was just a little red beneath the nose – and that could have been the drink or the weather.
‘Whose idea was this?’ he said, folding his arms around himself. They were walking on Portobello beach, the only souls mad enough in this seizure-inducing wind.
‘Mine,’ said Mairie Henderson.
Rebus had turned up at her flat expe...cting a hot drink and a soft couch, but instead she’d dragged him out for what she euphemistically called her ‘constitutional’.
‘You’d have to have the constitution of an ox to survive this,’ Rebus muttered to himself. The blasts of air against his ears meant he could barely hear what Mairie was saying, and every time he opened his mouth to yell something back, the malevolent air flooded in and attacked his tooth again. Mairie ran to a wall and hunkered down with her back against it.MoreLess
‘Whose idea was this?’ he said, folding his arms around himself. They were walking on Portobello beach, the only souls mad enough in this seizure-inducing wind.
‘Mine,’ said Mairie Henderson.
Rebus had turned up at her flat expe...cting a hot drink and a soft couch, but instead she’d dragged him out for what she euphemistically called her ‘constitutional’.
‘You’d have to have the constitution of an ox to survive this,’ Rebus muttered to himself. The blasts of air against his ears meant he could barely hear what Mairie was saying, and every time he opened his mouth to yell something back, the malevolent air flooded in and attacked his tooth again. Mairie ran to a wall and hunkered down with her back against it.MoreLess
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