Night & Day (7)

 

Harriett settled down in the chair, looked at Julian and smiled. 'You should really take your coat off. You will warm up much better without it on'. Julian had not even realised he was still wearing it. He was so eager to get inside for comfort. He could not even remember carrying his bag into the house. You get so used to some items like that that they become an extension of your body. His bag was at the side of his chair where he must have placed it when first arriving.

Julian started to take his coat off and his body reminded him of just how much work it had actually done recently. Muscles were starting to talk and not responding to what he was telling them. He managed to take his coat off; Harriett saw that he had struggled as watched him intently. 'Just lay your coat next to the fire, it will dry quicker'.

Julian laid his coat next to his chair, 'I had forgotten how much I had walked; my body is now telling me.' He smiled and looked over to Harriett. 'Rest and relaxation is what you need. Let's get some nourishment in you first. I can hear Mary coming now.'

Julian turned to see if Mary was coming, but he could not hear her. What he could hear though was a child; faintly singing. He could not see a child and did not believe that a child was living in the house, but he was sure that he heard a child. Julian was puzzled, looking around for the owner of the singing, but to no avail, but the one singing saw Julian and was watching all the time...............................