“Well, I’ll be here, come back whenever you want.”
I left behind Pilar, and started walking quickly, because I didn’t want her to leave me behind, but it was hard for me to stay by her side.
I noticed that time had not sapped away that energy that she always had, and that although now she would not have to walk so much through the corridors of the library, her legs were as agile as ever. Suddenly she stopped there in the middle of the street, and she started thinking.
“Look, seeing as we’re together, we don’t need to go to our coffee shop, I’m thinking of something I’d like to show you,” she was telling me with a smile.
Without asking any questions, because I thought, “She always has first-hand information,” I said:
“Whatever you want. Let’s go to wherever you’re talking about.”
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