Margit Sandemo: The Ice People 36 -Troll Moon

Christa discovered to her horror that she was developing an increasing sense of aversion towards her so-called father. That mustn’t happen! It wasn’t like her either. She had always had a positive attitude towards most people. She tended to see the best in everyone and looked at the bright side of life. She loved the world, life, humans, animals, plants, rocks, beauty in nature, all of it!

This evening had changed many things. Including her attitude to life – yes, her whole state of mind.

It was frightening. She didn’t want that to happen.

When Abel began to give her a worried answer, she had forgotten what it was she had asked about. Oh, yes, whether she could wait a day before going to his house.

“I don’t know,” he said, drawing it out a bit. “I was actually supposed to leave tomorrow so I can’t take the day off work. And my aunt has caught the boys’ cold and is in bed ill.”

She grasped that his trip was important to him.

“Don’t worry about it! I’ll come!”

He looked relieved and grateful.

I must telephone Henning, she thought. To explain why Frank and I aren’t coming. And to wish him happy birthday, of course!”

But how was she to ask Henning about the circumstances of her birth over the telephone? While Frank was listening in on the conversation – which he always did – as well as the operator at the telephone exchange, from where news leaked out as if through a sieve?

It wouldn’t work.

That night she went to bed in low spirits. She didn’t see the cloud making its way across the sky. Didn’t see how it seemed to search for the cold glow of the moon. Didn’t see how it covered the disk of the moon, shrouding it in darkness.

The black moon.

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