Mikael started drumming just as Petra entered the sports hall. The badminton nets were gone, and the table and chairs were positioned along the far wall. Petra moved them back to the middle, to keep her occupied, to stop her thinking and worrying about Inniki.
“She’s tough,” she said. “Tougher than me.”
Petra’s heart skipped a beat as the drums stopped.
She fumbled her phone out of her pocket, watched the seconds tick by on the screen.
At fifteen seconds Petra was ready to run. She took a step towards the fire exit, counting down from five to four to three…
The door opened at the same time as Mikael resumed his practice. Petra blew the air from her lungs as a young Greenlandic man, not much older than Mikael, walked towards her.
“I’m supposed to meet someone,” he said, in Danish.
“Yes.”
“Is it you?”
“I think so.”
The man stopped halfway between Petra and the door. The drumming continued. He looked back at the door, as if deciding, then he turned to look at Petra.
“It’s awful,” he said. “The things on the news.”
“Yes.”
“About Greenland.”
Petra relaxed and gestured at the empty chairs. “Shall we sit?”
“And talk?” the man asked.
“Yes. About Greenland.”
They sat down at the same time. Petra slipped her phone into her pocket. She studied the man’s face, his deep brown eyes – the same colour as her own. His thick black hair and bushy eyebrows. Typically Greenlandic. The light from the faulty bulb blinked on his cheeks, reflected in his eyes, adding to the intense gaze that he fixed on Petra.
“I came to help,” he said.
Petra nodded. “So did I.”
“When can I start?”
“We start tonight.” Petra took her jacket off and hung it on the back of her chair. “How much do you know about navigation?”
The End
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