"Many times," he answers. "When my daughter was younger it was one of her favourites."
Her accent is German, a language Luke speaks relatively well. While he isn't fluent, not like he is with Latin, he knows enough that he would be able to carry on a conversation, but he doesn't start speaking to her in German. Not yet. Right now he needs to figure out what he's going to do next.
Another person might call the police, but he doesn't see any reason to. She isn't here to steal anything more than a book, she isn't a threat to him or to his family upstairs, and more than anything, she looks as if she just wants somewhere or something familiar. It's a feeling Luke knows well enough, having sought out any place that reminded him of Idris after he'd left, spending hours in museums just so he could look at the ancient weapons inside their cases.
"If you help me clean up the glass on the floor, you can stay and read it," he tells her, inclining his head toward the comfortable chairs and couches near the big front window.
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Her accent is German, a language Luke speaks relatively well. While he isn't fluent, not like he is with Latin, he knows enough that he would be able to carry on a conversation, but he doesn't start speaking to her in German. Not yet. Right now he needs to figure out what he's going to do next.
Another person might call the police, but he doesn't see any reason to. She isn't here to steal anything more than a book, she isn't a threat to him or to his family upstairs, and more than anything, she looks as if she just wants somewhere or something familiar. It's a feeling Luke knows well enough, having sought out any place that reminded him of Idris after he'd left, spending hours in museums just so he could look at the ancient weapons inside their cases.
"If you help me clean up the glass on the floor, you can stay and read it," he tells her, inclining his head toward the comfortable chairs and couches near the big front window.