There was a pause, in the darkness. Nora pressed the small light on her watch, just to check. 00:00:00
“I think,” Mrs Elm said eventually, “if I may say so without being rude – I think you might have lost your way a little bit.”
Isn’t that why I came to the Midnight Library in the first place? Because I had lost my way?
Well, yes. But now you are lost within your lostness. Which is to say, very lost indeed.
You are not going to find the way you want to live like this.
What if there was never a way? What if I am... trapped?
So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.
“I just don’t understand life,” sulked Nora. “You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
Nora shook her head. This was a bit too much for a Philosophy graduate to take.
“But I don’t want to be like this,” Nora told her. “I don’t want to be like Hugo. I don’t want to keep flicking between lives for ever.”
“All right. Then you need to listen carefully to me. Now, do you want my advice or don’t you?”
“Well, yeah. Of course. It feels a little late, but yes, Mrs Elm, I would be very grateful for your advice on this.”
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