Noddy opened his eyes to see a Bimbos breakfast pita wafting back and forth under his nose. Hoping he wasn’t still dreaming, he moved his right hand slowly until it intercepted this gift from the gods. He found that someone else’s hand had been holding it. Disappointing. He really needed to work on his ability to summon inanimate objects and make them appear when required.
“Still tramp king of the city, I see?”
He knew that voice. Taking his first bite of the pita, he looked round to see Janine smiling down at him. She was holding a beer. It would have been impolite to make her hold it much longer, so Noddy took up the burden himself.
“Cheers.” He looked around again. “So this is our new place? I like it. Comfortable, yet with the illusion of space. Must have cost a fortune.”
She laughed. “This is a flowerbed.”
Aha. That explained all those people walking past, staring at them. He took a quick peek over his breakfast, and was more than a little relieved to find that he was fully clothed. Green bushes sprang up around the outline of his body, their neighbours providing adequate support underneath. It was really quite comfortable. And healthy, out in the sunshine and fresh air.
Janine tucked into her own pita, sitting on the brick wall around the flowerbed and popping open another beer. Now there were no smiles.
“You heard, obviously?”
And it was then that Noddy remembered why he had spent the night alone on top of the Skeleton, a burned-out shell of a building perched on the edge of a cliff in Yeoville, with a bottle of whisky liberated from a Rockey Street bar.
He would have staggered if he hadn’t already been lying down.
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