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barbarafett) wrote2010-08-23 10:50 pm
barbarafett) wrote2010-08-23 10:50 pm
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August Writing, Day 23: Something is Missing
#10 in my ongoing Inception drabble series.
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Before, they’d rushed off to Sydney so fast that Arthur hadn’t had time to clean the place up. Now, he did, so he was.
A stray sheet of paper he discovered under a desk gave him pause. He couldn’t read the words on it (chickenscratch? Arabic? Both?), but he knew what molecular diagrams looked like.
The others, noticing him gazing at the paper, gathered around. They looked at it, then at each other.
"It just isn’t the same, is it?" said Ariadne.
"No," said Eames. "What do you say we give Yusuf a ring? Strictly socially, of course."
"Yes, let’s."
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Before, they’d rushed off to Sydney so fast that Arthur hadn’t had time to clean the place up. Now, he did, so he was.
A stray sheet of paper he discovered under a desk gave him pause. He couldn’t read the words on it (chickenscratch? Arabic? Both?), but he knew what molecular diagrams looked like.
The others, noticing him gazing at the paper, gathered around. They looked at it, then at each other.
"It just isn’t the same, is it?" said Ariadne.
"No," said Eames. "What do you say we give Yusuf a ring? Strictly socially, of course."
"Yes, let’s."