Ella Claire Gainsborough {Beauty} (bookshelved) wrote in bellumlogs, @ 2010-01-15 00:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | beauty, plot: memories |
Who: Ella
What: Memories
Where: The dumbwaiter
When: After Leah has moved in
Warnings: None
She's heard the rumors that the man upstairs has come home alive. She didn't believe them at first, but the entire building has been buzzing with it, and she had little choice but to accept that what they said is true.
She waited until Leah left for work, waited until the apartment was quiet and still, the only movement Home settling beneath the long curtain of her hair, curling warmly against the nape of her neck to sleep, and she went into Leah's room, and she knelt by the dumbwaiter.
She had to move the mirror to be able to reach the door, and she slid it up with as little noise as was possible. She peered up into the dark, and she listened. It was a long way up, but noise carried, and she heard nothing.
She reached for the rope to loosen the knot she'd made to tether it, but it slipped free, up and up, until she couldn't reach it, no matter how she stretched.
Lost until the man on the roof decided to lower the dumbwaiter again. At least he wouldn't be able to tell what apartment it came from.
She looked back at the typewriter, and she moved toward it, but she stopped when she heard Leah returning to the apartment. She'd take it to her room later.