( Everything and everyone in your life
is there by your choice. ) ( Stephen C. Paul )COPENHAGEN;
with IDLETHINGS and ASSEMBLE
post.CANON;
✖ [ Up earlier than usual, making coffee. ]
✖ [ He wakes and realizes it's raining. ]
✖ [ And so here he is. On Paris on a Saturday. ]
✖ [ At eight o'clock, Arthur texts: ] ETA?
✖ [ Sketching several versions of someone familiar. ]
✖ " Please clarify, Arthur: "
✖ [ A non-sequitor: ] She'll be graduating soon.
✖ " My Farsi's getting worse. "
✖ " Lose it and I'll shoot you. "
✖ " don't worry. i'll keep an eye on him. "
✖ " I used to think: "
✖ " Got the drop on us this morning. "
✖ [ THE MANOR JOB, and associated threads ]
✖ [ Left none too discreetly on the refrigerator. ]
✖ " Still awake, I see. "
✖ " Incorporating stables isn't the hard part.
✖ [ Eames arrives, unannounced, two days later. ]
✖ [ An email: Copenhagen address, signed 'A'. ]
✖ [ Packing Hour #3: Papers still everywhere. ]
✖ " Leave it to you to turn Donne on his head and inside out. "
✖ [ A text message. ]
✖ [ A package. ]
✖ [ Mombasa is sweltering. Across the water, Arthur's phone rings. ]
✖ [ Checking messages, she leaves a café. ]
✖ [ Tapping her pencil, reassessing her sketch. ]
mid.CANON;
✖ [ Leaned over the PASIV. ] How long?
pre.CANON;
✖ [ Reading, halfway across the Jamuna Bridge. ]
✖ " Tomorrow, we need to import ourselves some sheep. "
✖ [ Eames wakes up, rubbing a hand over his breastbone in mild irritation. ]
✖ [ From the kitchen, Arthur calls: ] Red or white? Or something stronger?
✖ " What part of 'wait' sounded negotiable? "
✖ [ You have one unheard message, Eames. ]
✖ [ A charity function at a museum. ]
head.CANON;
✖ [ Associated notes on Arthur; backstory. ]