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‘Yeah, so a life is the greatest feeling and I love e it for the world But sometimes’

‘Yeah, so I thought you’d like to know that Hollings’ operation ell yesterday He’ll be stable enough to be leaving on a plane back t

o the UK hospital within the next twelve hours He’s still alive, thanks to you’

‘And you If you hadn’t got us into that shelter’

‘We ood team’

He didn’t realise how intimate that would sound until the words were out Yet with anyone else it wouldn’t have held any deeper significance By the loaded silence, Fliss thought the same

‘Thanks,’ sheto tell me’

‘No problem’

Another silence pressed in on theet up

‘Wait’

He paused Stopped

‘How did you know about Andy Hollings?’

Ash didn’t kno best to answer her

‘It’s not as though you’re around the hospital much’

‘I just happened to be there,’ he offered