MICHAEL
The suitcase has a false bottom. That’s why it’s so heavy.
It’s has little out of the ordinary inside. Some ski clothes and snow boots, two changes of clothes, and a bag of toiletries.
I have to search for five minutes to find the catch for the false bottom. Amnesia is such a pain in the a*s!
Eve watches anxiously as we sit on the sofa, the suitcase laid out on the timber coffee table in front of us. Freya has already hopped into the other half of the suitcase and is curled up on my snowsuit. Even Diogenes is perched on the edge of the suitcase, peering at me as if trying to figure out what I’m doing.
Finally I find the catch under the layer of liner fabric and twist it; there’s a click, and the false bottom pops open. I grab the edge and swing it wide, and stare at what was h
