![]() Tina didn’t remember the journey, not properly. “I’m afraid you’re going to have to come with us,” they had said, as the sky above them began to change.Īnd then she was here. She smiled, even as the shadowed figure did not remove his hand from her shoulder. Because that’s what they were for, to take care of these problems, to shuffle people away for their own protection, and keep the world working as it should be. So when she turned and saw them standing there, so official in their vests and helmets, what else was she to think? Ah, thank goodness, it flitted through her mind as Tina felt herself relax, whatever it is, someone is taking care of it. And all day, that intense, unshakeable feeling that she was being watched. In the shops she had seen them, eyes darting nervously, fingers drumming incessantly on trolly handles, waiting for whatever was coming. Had it been her imagination? No, others had sensed it too, she was sure of it. ![]() All day she had been feeling on edge, smelling the faintest hint of something rotten on the wind. She had smiled when she turned, reassured by the sight of the uniforms, and didn’t even notice the sternness of their expression or the fact that the faces beneath the helmets were identical. Her fingertips still remembered the chill of the milk as she placed it in the boot of the old Toyota. They had walked up to Tina in the street, as she was loading her car with shopping, and placed a hand on her shoulder gently but with the certainty of gravity. She isn’t even sure she was ever arrested. ![]() They have never told her what crime she has been arrested for.
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