Winterland

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How has it come to this?

Gina doesn’t know – but she looks across the warehouse floor at the three men and decides she can’t take any more of it. She has to leave. It’s just too much.

‘I’m… I’ll be outside,’ she says, though it’s barely audible.

She turns and walks over to the metal door. Her hand is shaking as she opens it. She steps outside, into the cold night air.

With her back to the closed door, she takes a deep breath and closes her eyes.

After a moment, she opens them again. It’s a fairly desolate scene out here. In one direction the floodlit yard of this industrial park leads to a graffiti-covered wall at the back of a housing estate. In the other direction there are more warehouses, and you can just about see the road up ahead – which is dead quiet at the moment. Five minutes west of here there is a major roundabout, and even at this time of night it would be busy with traffic.

Gina can’t believe she’s feeling lonely for traffic.

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