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[oom] London, 2008
Nov. 26th, 2010 01:30 am"It's a brisk two degrees below zero, this afternoon, but the weather doesn't seem to be what's keeping shoppers home this holiday season. We'll have more on the continuing economic crisis in just a moment. Today, scientists announced they've positively identified the remains of the Russian Tsar, Nicholas the second, using modern forensic DNA..."
Alex turned the news off, and reached for her iPod. Easier to do her yoga stretches with music, anyway. She needed to get back into her routine. Yoga used to be one of her favourite stress reduction techniques. So she focused on her sun salutation, going through each position three times, focusing on her breathing, trying to ignore the dull throb behind her right eye.
A phantom, nothing more. The bullet's out. She's home. Bols!
The days passed like water running through her hands. It was easier while the sun was up. Easier to believe that everything was normal and proper and right. Easier to believe that she was healing and that it was only a matter of time before 1982 and her time at Fenchurch East was nothing more than a distant memory.
( The night time, that was another country entirely )
Alex turned the news off, and reached for her iPod. Easier to do her yoga stretches with music, anyway. She needed to get back into her routine. Yoga used to be one of her favourite stress reduction techniques. So she focused on her sun salutation, going through each position three times, focusing on her breathing, trying to ignore the dull throb behind her right eye.
A phantom, nothing more. The bullet's out. She's home. Bols!
The days passed like water running through her hands. It was easier while the sun was up. Easier to believe that everything was normal and proper and right. Easier to believe that she was healing and that it was only a matter of time before 1982 and her time at Fenchurch East was nothing more than a distant memory.
( The night time, that was another country entirely )
