5 Days To Go

See this entry for an explanation of this madness.

Dominic listened to the old woman's conversation patiently, gauging the time passing with the tired patience of the enforcedly virtuous.

"...and, of course it was a very long time ago, but back in..."

He resisted the urge to look at his watch.

She said something else, and wandered off to the kitchen in search of something that she had undoubtedly told him in detail of, but of which he was in complete ignorance due to his boredom-induced lobotomy.

Monotony that cut like a knife.

Eventually she reappeared, bearing cake, and suddenly the hour of tedium seemed anything but futile.