These Dreams of You

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She doesn’t have enough money for the train, and on sheer adrenaline from what happened in the rue Dunkerque outside, she almost slips past the ticket booth before one of the officials stops her.

Depressed and rattled, she can’t bring herself to sleep in the station. She wanders several blocks east, to the cheapest no-star hotel that she can find on the rue d’Alsace.