These Dreams of You

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At the airport early the next morning, Viv finds there’s not enough credit on her card to get back to London. Her cell hasn’t worked since she got to Addis and the battery is dead, and if she returns to the hotel and stays another night to email Zan, it’s money that could go toward getting her back. She’s not certain what Zan would be able to do anyway. Zan would be the first to acknowledge that it’s in such situations when he becomes most flabbergasted that Viv is coolest.

Beginning to feel the hangover of the long sleepless night, she finds thinking that much harder. She decides to try and use the credit card to buy a less expensive ticket to some place in Western Europe from where she’ll find a way to England. Her best prospect appears to be Berlin, more out of the way than she would like, and she’s about to book a seat when, at the last moment, a flight to Paris becomes available.