2. A different morning
A new day dawned. That morning, Marina decided that it was about time she stepped out of her house in which she lived alone, trying to forget and avoid the world. She had to satisfy an urgent mental need of hers that could no longer wait. For a long time now, she wanted to visit the small chapel of St Anna but for some inexplicable reason that visit was always put off, as there was something that kept her from doing so every day.
Her circadian clock went off loudly that morning and woke her up at the most appropriate moment of the day. She got up slowly from her iron-wrought bed in her bedroom and went to the desktop of an old dressing table. On that elaborately-carved piece of furniture, there was a crystal pitcher with water and a built-in water basin. With slow,
