The Storage Space felt…hollow, then chided itself. Of course it felt hollow. That was patently obvious. It was, after all, a building.
Karen…
Gone…
The Storage Space would have felt utterly heartbroken, if only a building could…
“So there!”
Who was that woman? Not Karen, surely. The voice seemed a little deep, maybe not even a woman.
“More than god-awful. Fifi, you’re a… You’re a…”
Definitely a man speaking this time. Though so slight of frame. And with shoes that looked like rainbows.
“Really!”
The maybe-a-woman again, this Fifi who had pink hair…though rather of an anemic, not very well-done pink. And enough make-up on to ascend the stage. But the Storage Space didn’t care about whatever these two were doing in Unit 3, leaving all the garments they’d removed from each other to spill into the hall. What the Storage Space cared about was…
“If all my boyfriend could do was fuss about his pregnant daughter going to the hospital, I really couldn’t be expected to wait any longer. So I took action. With you, Sebastian. Really!”
Fifi of the pink hair yet again. How dreadfully tiresome. The Storage Space tuned Fifi and Sebastian out. All it cared about was…
Karen…
Should it have let her know that she’d been wrong when she’d assumed that the love-of-her-life Frank had succeeded in killing Martin after she passed out? That it had really been Martin that had killed Frank?
“Clumsy, Hank, clumsy.”
Yet another bottle clattered down the stairs to the reception area Sebastian and Fifi had deserted. The eternally drunk Hank tripped and tumbled down the stairs after it, still mumbling to himself.
“What’s this?” Hank asked himself, picking something else up off the floor before standing and wobbling back upstairs with his bottle. “A data stick?”
