Of gods and men (capstone)
‘I heard just the other day that some people actually worship cats, and birds ...’
‘Yeah, the Egyptians, the bird was a hawk, Horus, not something as stupid as a duck ... or a seagull. I could be your hawk, you my cat.’
His voice vibrated something low within her stomach, and, mobile phone to her ear, she smiled. She’d got the phone for her birthday and two days later he’d phoned and although he’d said ‘Sorry wrong number,’ he’d kept talking to her, had made her laugh. He’d rung her again a couple more times and yesterday had asked about where she went when she wanted to take refuge from the world. When she’d told him about the old barn, and the cart propped up on bricks he’d said ‘Go there on Saturday afternoon, I’ll phone you there, then we can talk some more.’
It was ages before her phone rang, she’d lain on the cart watching her cat trying to catch mice, laughing whenever he missed. She’d straightaway told him about that, her cat pretending he didn’t mean it, which was when he’d said about Egyptian gods.
Then he said ‘The Egyptians called their cat god Mau ... I can see your cat from where I’m standing ... I’m going to come and see you now.’
Even before he appeared she wondered whether this was one of those errors of judgement her mother said she hoped she’d grow out of, before she got herself into trouble.
On Location (Monday) A wagon in wooden area
Take It Away (Tuesday) I heard just the other day…
Words, Inc. (Wednesday)error, mobile phone, refuge
Plot Thickens (Thursday)a wrong number
One Word/Sentence Two (Friday) In the second sentence include the following word: seagull
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Comment by Sandra Davies on January 7, 2013 at 9:29am -
Precisely. And yes, I remember it well.
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Comment by Kerry Logan on January 7, 2013 at 9:15am -
I had noticed that theme. Oh at 13, it is so easy to be led astray because we so desperately want what we don't even know.
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Comment by Sandra Davies on January 7, 2013 at 9:02am
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Me too Kerry, sheltered and naive, but such naivety led me unwittingly into situations which a little more savvy, less sheltering could have avoided. (Still does to be honest!)
But this girl ... I set her age as thirteen (was going to say 'thirteenth birthday'), so very young ... and I didn't know until I'd finished where it would end up. I think she was clueless until the last. I've been pondering on the shelter/expose-too-soon-to-protect dilemma quite a bit lately, in an abstract kind of way.
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Comment by Kerry Logan on January 7, 2013 at 8:48am
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Good one! I wonder how these women/girls get into these kinds of traps so willingly. I was sheltered and naive. But I don't think I would have not seen this coming. Maybe she's braver and accepts the risks?
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