A Memory
February 06, 2021 6:39 PM
How We Got Here by A Memory
A woman – a woman very familiar to one member of the staff, and perhaps vaguely familiar-looking to two others – appeared abruptly, rising from a glimmer of mist at speed when someone moved too close to the point where a memory of her happened to have fallen. Even in a memory, she conveyed an impression of intense, restless energy as she began to pace impatiently. Wavy hair hung loose over her shoulders, framing a triangular face of the sort commonly described as possessing more character than beauty, with high cheekbones, a bold nose, a wide mouth, and eyes currently narrowed in apparent annoyance.“That,” she growled, at nothing, “is some – “ She ended with a not-particularly-polite word referring to waste of a bovine nature, which was followed by similar invective in heavily accented French before she paused in both her speech and her pacing and glared specifically at one point in the air.
“Will you stop making jokes and let me be annoyed on your behalf, Gray? Thank you, Gray,” she said after that pause, and then resumed being annoyed. She slipped slightly out of focus for a moment, her voice become indistinct, as the person listening had started more or less not paying attention to her, until she suddenly snapped back into focus after she stopped pacing, sighed, and flipped her hair over her shoulder. “Well…that still doesn’t help anything, does it? We’ll have to figure out something else for now. I guess there’s always tutoring, like I used to…”
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