Chapter 33Lina
Face still flushed, Emery departed and Lina suddenly stood alone in Mandy’s kitchen. Through the window she watched Emery’s car pull out of the yard. Salty gave a little woof and Lina realized she still held the sausages in their see-through packaging. Plastic they called it, and it was everywhere.
Lina’s mouth watered and she contemplated frying the sausages, but she put them back for the time being. It wouldn’t do to become greedy or, even worse, used to eating when one wasn’t even hungry. Not when her future was in no way secured beyond Mandy’s return. No, it would be much better and useful to explore this place. To learn as much as she possibly could about the here and now. Mandy’s kitchen alone held so many wonders: coolness and ice whenever one wanted, light with onl
