It wasn’t clear. High pitched, likely children. Girls perhaps? More than one, maybe three. Voices raised hesitantly. Learning a new song, practising?
He walked towards the noise, hoping for clarity but he knew clarity in this tiny mystery would bring no peace, no resolution.
It was children. He could see them through the bay window, through the gap in the curtains struggling to keep out the darkness, to hold in the warmth of family. He would twitch them if his hand could but pass through the glass. Twitch them as if a secret watcher standing guard on a lonely residential street. But he was the interloper here and onwards he must go
The piano they’d been standing about in their innocence had triggered a memory. A conversation so long ago. Where she’d gone as a child to find peace.
Perhaps, just perhaps?
He turned his face from the warmth and let the cold moonlight caress him. It was as he deserved.
He searched the rooftop silhouette for God and set his course to his house.
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