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outside of the building where he quickly found
himself in the limestone paved courtyard
outside of the tower with its preened flower
pots and emerald green coloured bushes dotted
around it which were supposed to reduce the
city’s frantic ambience that appeared just
twenty yards away over the high grey concrete
walls that enclosed the square.
He looked around and then he saw Nousk
sitting quietly on a dark, wooden bench on the
other side of the courtyard, adjacent to a bright
bush with yellow dandelions shooting from its
roots. He started walking to her, but when he
was not even halfway there he saw a broad
shouldered, slightly taller man than himself
approaching her. He noticed her looking at
him from the phone that she had been texting
on and when this man got closer she stood up,
took a couple of steps towards him and gave
him a kiss on each cheek and hugged him
tightly.
He shrugged and said to himself. “Maybe not
