Erasing Mrs. Moretti
I painted, I read, I drank coffee, and I watched the aurora dance across the sky.
I felt a true sense of peace.
One afternoon, Gunnar knocked on my door. He looked hesitant, holding an old smartphone in his hand.
"Ava," he said, using my new name, "I don't know if I should show you this… but there are these videos going around online… about an American gangster. They're saying… they're saying the man is dying."
I put down my paintbrush and looked at his worried face. "What video?"
I took the old phone from Gunnar's hands. A blurry video was playing on the screen. The quality was poor, but I could still clearly see that familiar face—so thin it was skeletal, his eyes as empty as a dead man's.