MsBloom
Moonchild
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2020
- Location
- Northern Europe
Tuesday June 25 (Evening)
"Bored bored bored bored BORED. I'm so fucking bored," Claire Miller said to her twin Gemima.
"I just don't understand how people do it. Wake up, go about their daily routines, work, kids, shopping, eat, drink, fuck, sleep and then it's the same all over again the next day."
She threw her arms out and let out a scream.
"I'm going crazy here. I need something to distract me or I am going to explode with boredom."
Gemima Miller looked at her twin and nodded. She was perhaps less expressive about it but she too itched with restlessness. It had been almost a decade since they had last played their game and since then they had settled near Bucknall, a small rural village in Lincolnshire where they officially ran a rather exclusive nursing home for anyone who could afford it.
"There is always the girl who drives the books-on-wheels truck," she suggested which had her twin raise an eyebrow and nod.
"Yea," she said after a few seconds.
"So who do you want to be then?"
"You're better at being bad so I'll start as good."
And so it was decided. The life of Annuska Linden, a young woman who was originally from the Netherlands, and the world as she had known it up to that day was about to change forever.
The ancient twins Anu and Una were first noticed and put on record in the region that saw the rise of the first human attempt at civilisation but they were older still than Mesopotamia, much older. They had walked with the first modern humans, the first homo sapiens out of Africa but they were older still than those first migrating modern humans. No one knew how much older, not even they themselves were entirely certain anymore. They were in fact not even entirely certain they had been born on the planet called Earth, though it was all they remembered.
While they both looked very much like female homo sapiens they were not of that species at all, barely even related to them. What mostly separated them from homo sapiens (other than their seemingly endless lifespan and extremely slow ageing process, (they both still appeared to be in their early to mid twenties) was their ability to get inside a person's mind and alter their reality. That was the game they played whenever they got bored which was quite often a few times every century.
Wednesday June 26 (Morning)
It was just like any other summer's day in the east midlands. The sun was out but it wasn't hot, at least not uncomfortably hot, nor would it be at any time of the day. There was nothing seemingly extraordinary or unusual about it. If anything it was an extraordinarily and unusually normal day. Janine Smith, head librarian of Lincoln Library and initiator of the books-on-wheels service, greeted Annuska, one of the three girls she had hired for the summer to prove the need for mobile libraries in the villages. She handed the girl the list of specifically ordered books.
"There has been a request from Nightingale House for live readings in the afternoons. If you like to add that to your Wednesday routine. It is your last stop today and it would only be for an hour, and it would of course be added to your work hours. Think about it and if you decide to do it you can talk to the managers yourself while you are there this afternoon."
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