Passage out of the dark
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#1: Passage out of the dark Author: pimLocation: Hemel Hempstead PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:23 pm


The book lies discarded on her lap as she stares aimlessly out of the window of the train with unseeing eyes at the passing countryside. It’s a journey she has done so often but this time something is different; but she isn’t sure what. Maybe it’s because it might be the last time she will be taking this journey. Maybe it’s because everything is going to be so different from now on. Maybe it’s simply because she’s scared.

She won’t admit to anyone that she is scared, of course, not when she knows that she needs to be strong for the others.

She reaches for the knitting tossed carelessly on the top of her bag, wondering if the mindless ritual of the clicking needles will help calm her. It’s only a half finished scarf and it won’t require her to think too hard about making it. But she’s unsure if she will ever see the person it was intended for again; she shudders and pushes the knitting back.

The train is slowing now and she catches snatches of someone else’s whispered conversation. She picks up on the word “border” and begins to feels scared again, casting an anxious eye over to her charges lost in their own world. She wishes she could be like that again.

The men climb aboard the train, marching up and down it, demanding papers and passports. She is aware that she is holding her breath as they check hers but she daren’t breathe. She daren’t show anything in her face at all; she just wants it over, for them to hand back the papers and let them go on their way.

Eventually they go and she sinks back into her seat, shaking. Gradually the oppressive silence of the carriage fades as whispered conversations start up again and the train moves away from Austria. For a moment her thoughts turn to those who are not with them but she dare not let them linger there, only the niggling doubt that they will not make it to safety as she has done remains in the back of her mind. Her eye falls on her discarded knitting and she feels the lump rising in her throat again, the one she has been fighting so hard to keep down these last weeks. She turns and looks out of the window again so that no one will see how close she is to tears as she offers a silent prayer that God will bring her friends to safety.

 


#2:  Author: LadyGuinevereLocation: Leicester PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:55 pm


Thanks pim. It was a scary time even for those not literally running for their lives Crying or Very sad

 


#3:  Author: RosyLocation: Gloucestershire-London-Aberystwyth PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:59 pm


That's gorgeous Pim. So beautifully poignant!

 


#4:  Author: ChairLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:52 pm


Thanks, Pim. She must have been so scared. I hope that she managed to get to where she was going safely.

 


#5:  Author: AllyLocation: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:42 am


I don't think I ever got to comment on this, so yay now a second chance. Thanks pim Very Happy

 


#6:  Author: Chalet_school_loverLocation: Gloucester PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:50 pm


Thanks Pim, that was beautiful and very evocative!

 


#7:  Author: RóisínLocation: Gaillimh, Eire PostPosted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:35 pm


That was just lovely Pim Crying or Very sad

 




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