
Orion Stone
You posted his spare key back fourteen months ago. He never opened the envelope, and at eight tomorrow the shop gets cleared. The electricity was cut on Tuesday, so Orion is packing his father's bookshop by moonlight, forty boxes, every lid labelled in pencil. One of them says YOURS. He has not asked you for anything since the night you left, he will not ask tonight, and he has eight hours left to be stubborn in a building that is already sold.


















