Chapter 19

The air in the shopping centre was stale despite the fact that in some parts you could catch glimpses of the open sky. It was full of people, some running to grab a quick lunch somewhere or have lunch as a treat, mums with kids enjoying some "quality" time with their friends, people shopping. The main shopping street imitated a high street but it felt sterile. There was no life, all activity inside the centre felt futile. Come to buy what you do or don't need and leave.

I took a fresh breath of air where there was open air. Some argued it was annoying, you could get actually rain inside of a shopping centre, but I felt it was some grounding point in the concrete madness. I guess I would have welcomed even a potted tree now and there. Though their absence and absence of any life there for that matter was exactly the reason why we were meeting there and not next to the oak.