Chapter 1.5 - Something Lost
(Finally.)
Mirei thought while she stretched herself while walking on the last street before getting home. It was still bright. While that didn’t necessarily tell much with the longer day hours of hot late July, it definitely was earlier than usual. A certain line manager left early today, so pretty much everyone felt comfortable enough to knock off earlier as well. Or at least, Mirei did. She felt quite exhausted. Maybe that was the same for him. While she thought he had a genuine talent for sincere talks like these, she also knew that they took effort for him.
She walked past a small supermarket. Mirei visited it nearly every day to get some cheap ready-made meals for dinner. A customer just exited it when she was about to enter. She could hear the notoriously loud noi--, no music from the shop. It was a song about rolled sushi sung by what sounded like a kindergarten child choir. She had heard it so often that immediately all the packed sushi and rice dishes came to mind. They looked like just what she had for lunch. Of course, they would, they came from the same supermarket chain, and she got one of them almost every evening.
A frown surfaced on her face. She didn’t like thinking back on it. It was as if in some small corner of her heart something had snapped. Or got lost. Yes, it was a sense of loss.
(But there wasn’t anything to lose.)
There was never anything to lose. Things were as they always were, right and proper. Mirei knew that for certain. So this weird feeling bewildered her. Being confused, even if only mildly, was exhausting.
She stepped away from the shop and just walked straight towards her place.
