The World Walkers: Taithmarin: Matt: Arriving (part 5)

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Matt nodded, even though he wasn’t sure he would be able to make a new life on Taithmarin. Not if there was a chance, no matter how slim, that he might be remembered. Leaving the girl he planned to marry wasn’t an option, as far as he was concerned, and he was going to do everything he could to get back to her, in the hope that she was one of those few people who were immune to the magic of the door. He just hoped that, if she did remember him, that dealing with his disappearance wasn’t going to be too hard for her.

For the first time Matt looked around his new one bedroom flat, trying not to think about the plans they’d had for the future. They were going to find a little flat to live in together, to make certain that they were right for each other – although neither of them really had any doubts – before they got married. He was working enough to be able to pay for it and for Amy to be able to go to university, if that was what she decided she wanted to do, without having to worry about getting a job as well. Even though she would any way, because she wasn’t the sort of person to want to leave the financial burden on his shoulders if she could help it.

Now none of that mattered. Matt was on another world and Amy was on Earth. Maybe she was living her life exactly as it would be if he’d never been there. She might be dating his brother, because that seemed to be the least difficult thing for the magic to do, so that she’d still be a part of his family’s life. It was impossible to imagine her not being a part of it, as she’d spent so much time round his, partly to avoid the family she hated, true, but mostly because all the two of them wanted was to live their life together. The only reason they hadn’t already moved into their own place was his insistence that they had some savings, just in case something happened.

“Okay, how much is the rent for this flat?”

“As it’s fully furnished it’s more expensive, but that does mean you won’t need to buy any furniture, which means you won’t have to purchase any yourself and waste money that should be spent on other things… like clothes, as you didn’t bring any with you, and food. You receive 1,200 clays a month, half of which will go towards your rent, while the rest is yours to use as you wish. 600 clays is more than enough to buy a month’s worth of food and some of the clothes that you’re going to be need, but as long as you have the most important items it’s something you can purchase as time passes and you see what each of the seasons is like, as the seasons here are…” Siobhan shrugged. “Well, I’m guessing you lived in the UK, as that’s where nearly every human has come from, and, honestly, it’s something you have to live through in order to understand.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.