i continued sleeping after i spotted ewan leaving... strangely i also moved while i was sleeping... and when i woke up, i was no longer in a perth hostel, i was in our hk apartment, alone!
i woke up to to smell of smoke... it wasn't choking me... it was like incense... the smell of smoke drifting past my nose... i straight away went into hay fever mode and jumped up from bed (i think i was in grandma's room - there was still a bed next to the windows)
i saw burning trees outside! and amber floating in the air... the fire was not roaring (like the ones they have been showing on tele the last few weeks)... it looked like the leaves were burning like "ghost money / ancestor offerings" - i could see the slow glow of heat around the edge of the leaves, no flames... it didn't feel ghostly or too scary... but none the less i was worried about the "fire" spreading and the apartment catching on fire...
some of the windows in the house were opened and amber was drifting in... i quickly closed all the windows, and had to splash big bowls of water so that the curtains would not catch on fire... during that time, i really really wanted to ring mcduck for help... but the tasks of closing the windows and extingushing the burning amber were more pressing...
i caught a glimpse of neighbouring apartments when i was closing mum's window near her bedhead... all the apartments below were deserted! i was alone alright! i must have slept trough the evacuation...
then the phone rang... it was mcduck...
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