Gull

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I made this all up, apart from the bits you just couldn’t.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Ephesians 6:12

On the morning of the day it all ended, Randall stumbled out of the elevator on the thirty-fifth floor of 280 Park Avenue to find Carole, DeLorean’s secretary, holding the outer-office fort on her own.

She came round from behind her desk as he passed at his best, jet-lagged version of a run.

‘You missed him,’ she said. ‘He left for LA forty minutes ago.’

Randall thought of the delay before take-off on the runway at Shannon, the longer than usual lines at passport control on landing in New York.

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