Making Enemies (2014)
“The sun is rising slowly. The sea remains a steely grey, encasing the shore. There is no movement anywhere, either outside the house or inside, and no sound: no waves breaking, no birds singing, no human voices, not even her own now. She has not said anything for some minutes and nor has Stevens.
But she knows that she must finish the story she is telling him; there must be an end to it. Only then will she be able to ask forgiveness for the wrong she has done. To leave without that would be... intolerable, unthinkable.
She watches the sun rise inch by inch above the horizon and then she breaks the silence.
* ‘The explosion occurred in the early hours of February the eighteenth,’ she says. ‘By eight o’clock that morning, we’d heard unofficially that D4, a laboratory on the outskirts of Moscow, had been damaged but we didn’t know how badly nor if anyone was hurt. Our requests for information were met with silence.MoreLess
But she knows that she must finish the story she is telling him; there must be an end to it. Only then will she be able to ask forgiveness for the wrong she has done. To leave without that would be... intolerable, unthinkable.
She watches the sun rise inch by inch above the horizon and then she breaks the silence.
* ‘The explosion occurred in the early hours of February the eighteenth,’ she says. ‘By eight o’clock that morning, we’d heard unofficially that D4, a laboratory on the outskirts of Moscow, had been damaged but we didn’t know how badly nor if anyone was hurt. Our requests for information were met with silence.MoreLess
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