When There Is Nothing Left But Love Chapter 644
In our desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the vige in our hunt for a phone.
It’s the twenty-first century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we
knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only met
with baffled looks.
Our best efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a good while, empty-handed.
Tabitha and Laurel hadn’t fared much better. We returned to find them sitting side by side, disconste.
Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps
we’ll get to the city. We may even meet some fellow countrymen!”
“The probability of that will be really low though. We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is.
If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped
down onto the floor with a sigh, looking defeated.
“What’s so bad about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows
a little more than the average viger. If we manage to exin our situation to them, it might be our
ticket home.”
“That’s right!” Laurel leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may
be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander around so aimlessly either.”
We all agreed that this was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought
andunching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to capture the attention of the local
police.
We were in a vige on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around
here? I wondered to myself.
Tessa remained steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless
of its motive. She slipped off before our discussion even began.
Nora and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they cried delightedly.
That evening, Nora and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the viger’s yards under the pretense of
borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of items and sprinted off.
Both of them returned with their armsden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot on their heels.
However, neither Nora nor Tabitha had counted on the kindness of the viger. The owner of the house
had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on ount of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the
viger had assumed that both girls were foraging for food and ultimately sympathized.
He thus hadn’t reported the incident to anyone, least of all the police. Nora and Tabitha were rather
taken aback by this oue and returned the stolen goods rather sheepishly.
A short whileter, the viger returned bearing the same fruits that Nora and Tabitha had returned.
Embarrassed and slightly frustrated, Nora and Tabitha decided to turn to other means of crime.
However, they repeated this at several other homes only to be met with the same result. Some vigers
even gave us additional food items from their own hoard out of pity.
Rice was a staple in the diets of these vigers. All they knew of the world was confined to the
boundaries of their farm. They remainedrgely oblivious to the wider modern society beyond their
fences.
The vigers thus viewed Nora and Tabitha’s acts with almost naive simplicity, assuming that the two
girls had been starving or poor. They’d done what they did selflessly, out of pity.
When we realized this, we were resolved not to pursue our thoughtless ways any further. However,
news of our presence here in the vige had already spread amongst its people.
Over the next couple of days, practically the whole vige came to visit us bearing gifts of food.
Through the most rudimentary of phrases and lots of guessing, we discovered that our host was named
Troy Laander. His daughter was Yvette.
Among all of us, Tabitha was the quickest to pick up the vigers’nguage, having been exposed to
other simr foreign tongues before.
Gradually, she was able to converse with the Laanders.
When Troy finallyprehended the rationale behind our rather peculiar acts of theft, he said ruefully,
“There was no need for you to behave this way! We could have found someone for you to borrow a
phone from.”
Tabitha cradled her head in both hands. She’d long ago realized the foolishness of our n. It was our
utter hopelessness that hadpelled and continued it.
Trying tofort her, Troy promised to seek out a phone for us the following morning.
It waste, and it was apparently a taboo to present oneself uninvited at another person’s house at that
timing.
We saw no reason not to but acquiesced as the dutiful guests that we were.
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The thought that home was very possibly within reach made us almost delirious with joy. We thus
yed delightedly with Yvette the whole night.
Tabitha was now ourmunications expert. She spent the entire night tranting for us. Among the
many promises we made Yvette; one was that we’d definitely return to the vige to visit her. We also
assured her that we’d bring dolls and lots of good food back with us.
We chatted until the first rays of dawn streaked across the sky. Troy, true to his word, had already set
off in search of a phone for us.
He returned empty-handed in the afternoon appearing rather dejected. He did, however, bring this
offering, “I think I saw some policemen in the vige. Do you want to head over and take a look?”
We were ted at this news. Nora, however, looked rather suspicious. She asked cynically, “Why did
those policemene here all of a sudden, though?”
Troy halted. “They’re looking for someone. I don’t know the specifics, but you can go and take a look.”
Looking for someone?
We exchanged nces amongst each other. We were equally bewildered. There was no discernible
reason for policemen to be looking for someone in such a remote location.