Friday. 1:23pm.
The curtains were closed. He preferred it that way.
13:23
Friday
Unknown Number12:41
Unknown Number12:55
Unknown Number13:10
Unknown Number
"This is an automated message regarding your outstanding account. Please call us on 0800..."
He switched the phone to silent and dropped it back on the carpet.
2,792 crowns. He needed to see it himself.
247 + 892 + 1653 = ?
Total owed: 2,792 crowns
Wallet: 17 cr · Bank: 43 cr · No job. No income. No way out.
Five hundred crowns. A year and two months.
He picked up the phone.
Five hundred crowns. He'd lent it without hesitation,
because that's what friends did.
He remembered the notebook.
Three pages. A town called Skoble.
A figure in white. Saturday nights.
The flat at dusk. No one came. Nothing changed.
Three weeks later, the electricity was cut.
He sat in the dark and ate the last egg cold.
2,792 cr
and climbing
Aldric's story stayed unwritten.
So did Kael's.
And the debt kept growing.