“You know, like a higher force or something. God sort of thing?’ Catherine looked up at the dark and crisp March night sky. The evening was chilly and the sky was perfectly clear so that the stars glittered with a particular brightness and a kind of intensity that made Catherine catch her breath to think that just a tiny bubble of atmosphere was keeping her here on the earth instead of wheeling out there lost in the magnitude of space. Only a couple of miles away from where she was sitting now, ...a huge sucking gaping, gulping universe waited to swallow her up, and after the last few days’ events there was a little part of her that couldn’t quite extinguish the desire to find a pin big enough to burst the bubble so she could go sailing out amongst the stars. ‘No,’ she said to Kirsty, her voice perfectly level, despite all the coincidences and consequences that had suddenly beset her, making her feel exactly like a rather panicky chesspiece on some cosmic board. ‘Not really.’ ‘I do,’ Kirsty said, as Catherine knew she would.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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