[Pride and Prejudice] Sky Bookstore

At dawn, the warm yellow sun warmed the earth again.

The last wisp of smoke dissipated on the ruins of the sky bookstore, and the fire site was still hot.

Darcy's eyes were bloodshot, and the snow-white shirt on his body was scorched black by the disaster in the middle of the night.His clothes were still wet, and his thin shirt drew a seductive curve after being soaked in water.

Now the clothes were no longer dripping, but Darcy was still standing in front of the fire, motionless.

The people around started to deal with the aftermath in a hurry. Everyone knew that Darcy and Skye had a good relationship. At this time, no one disturbed him, and even cast some pity glances between coming and going.

Immediately after the accident, Darcy ran towards the bookstore with a blank mind.Skye usually suffers from a headache at this time, and perhaps it was at this time that she knocked over the oil lamp, which caused the fire.

···No, these are not the most important!The problem is that it is impossible for Skye to escape from the bookstore during the seizure!

He's still in the store and needs someone to save him!

Darcy went down from the stairs on the second floor to the first floor in a few steps. Because he was too anxious, he tripped and almost fell.

As soon as he arrived at the fire scene, he grabbed a basin of water and poured it on himself, ready to rush into the fire scene.

"Hey! You can't go in, the fire is too big now!" In the confusion, someone held Darcy and stopped him from moving.Darcy looked back angrily, and the flames shone on the person who held him back. It was Anna's husband, who seemed to be called Wilkey or something else.

Darcy wanted to break free, but Witkey's hands were as immovable as iron tongs.

"Damn it! Skye is still inside, you will kill him like this!" Darcy shouted angrily.

"You will kill yourself like this! The fire is too big! Maybe there is no one inside!"

Witkey also shouted with all his strength, there were too many noises around, and everyone was a little out of order stimulated by the fire.

In theory, Witkey is right to do so.The bookstore had been burning for more than ten minutes when Darcy arrived.With such a fire, people who are stimulated by thick smoke can hardly open their eyes.As far as the current situation is concerned, it is not possible to rush in artificially.

The Sky Bookstore is always open during the day, but Skye is used to locking all the doors and windows in the store at night.The original intention of doing this was that he didn't want others to see him when he was ill, but now it has become a death-threatening spell!

The fire was still raging, and if it was placed in a flammable place like a bookstore, even if it was put out with all its strength, nothing would be changed for a while.

Darcy looked at the scorching flames in front of his eyes with tears in his eyes, and joined the ranks of fighting the fire.

He raised a bucket of water and poured it on the burning tongue, and the flame went out in a small area, but before he had time to be happy, the flames on the side were replenished.The flames that rushed up even burned Darcy's hair, he stepped back hastily, and the place that was smoked was stinging.

Even so, the action of fighting the fire was still going on mechanically, and Darcy splashed water again and again...

Skye said that he would open Sky Bookstore for the rest of his life!

As long as Skye is alive, he will one day get out of the shadow of losing his family!

Isn't he still going to be the godfather of that Anna's child!

Didn't he still have an unsold copy?

damn it!He likes those books so much, if he doesn't stand up and rescue them now, is he waiting to burn them to ashes together?

···Maybe...Darcy poured basins of water on the wall of the bookstore,...Maybe Skye is not there?

Just when he was thinking this, Anna's exclamation sounded beside him.

Darcy turned around and saw Anna's eyes widened in surprise, and then tears filled those eyes. Anna shook a few times, and suddenly fell to the ground.

Darcy had a bad premonition in his heart, and he followed Anna's line of sight to look in the direction of the store.

The scene in front of him made him tremble all over, and he didn't even feel anything when he bit the tip of his tongue.

——A person... To be precise, it was a group of black shadows standing in the door of the Sky Bookstore wailing. He knocked on the door vigorously and wailed in pain, which attracted everyone's attention.Everyone who heard him shouted felt their scalps go numb, and everyone saw that the human strength inside the door was getting weaker and weaker, slowly sliding down the door.

That's horrible!

Everyone who was fighting the fire saw this scene.The only thing that can be done is to fight the water harder, hoping to put out the fire earlier.

Skye usually disliked that there were too many books in the bookstore, so he moved out some unimportant ones and piled them in front of the store. These books had already been set on fire. At this time, they were like a wall of fire preventing the rescuers from rushing in. He obviously saw it. ···It seems so far away···

Darcy could see more clearly, Skye was pawing at the door feebly, his back was on fire, he was crying and rolling, his strength gradually became weak...he disappeared in the thick smoke.

Powerless.

Something liquid flowed out of his eye sockets, a big hole seemed to be broken emotionally, and there was nowhere to put the overflowing part. It was already dawn, but the last ray of hope was gone.

The burnt smell permeated the air, and the irritating people's lungs ached.

Someone found the door of the bookstore on the still hot ruins.The distance of four or five meters cannot be approached all night.

The older people in the town have never seen such a tragic scene. Some people say that Skye's life is bad, and this kind of thing happened before he had a good life.People's eyes were red, and several ladies prayed for Skye under the leadership of the pastor.

Several adult males found a body from behind the door.It's too awful! ——It is almost impossible to distinguish human figures...

The young ones covered their mouths and almost vomited, and some really had to walk away quickly, not daring to take a second look.There was a small gap in the surrounding people, and Darcy stood at a relatively close place, and also saw the scorched black object.

——He couldn't imagine that this was Skye's body, there was no similarity at all... He was not ready yet, but he got the news that his friend had passed away.

Darcy sensed a hint of itching, he touched his face, but touched tears with his hand.

Five deep scratches were left on the scorched door frame, and a piece of fingernail was stuck in the wood, but it was also burnt black.

Darcy came a little closer, each step heavy.

A few cats ran out from the nearby ruins, and their bodies were also dirty.

They didn't know what happened, they just rubbed Darcy's trouser legs carefully like every morning in the past.If you don't want to eat, just meow a few times.

Usually Darcy would take a long stride away, stamping his foot to frighten the cats away.But this time he squatted down and smoothed the cat carefully.

What Skye said is actually right, things like cleanliness are hypocritical.To be cured, all you need to do is lose something.

Anna passed out in the middle of the night, and insisted on coming over after waking up.Witkey was very worried about her, so he came with her.

The shopkeeper who said arrogantly that he didn't sell books, the shopkeeper who promised to be their child's godfather, is dead!

Anna silently looked at Darcy who was squatting on the ground to appease the cat.He obviously worked very hard, but the cats still meowed uncomfortably under his hands. It should be a very amusing scene, but at this moment it looked extremely sad.

Darcy stared at these small animals that were already stray cats in a daze for a while.He stood up suddenly, shaking from being inactive for so long.

Anna was a little worried and wanted to go over to subdue him, but she was also dizzy from shaking.

Witkey nervously supported his wife on the side.Seeing Darcy walking past them, he stumbled towards the direction of the hotel.

Darcy didn't know why he suddenly decided to leave.

He desperately needed something to ease, like the letter that hadn't been opened yet.

Up to this day in his life, all he has encountered are trivial things like being excluded. There really is such a day, a person died alive in front of his eyes...

Darcy sat down in front of the desk, his hands were still trembling. When he came over just now, the other people in the hostel all looked surprised.

Darcy subconsciously opened a drawer to find the letter opener, but he couldn't find it all at once.Reluctantly, he opened the other two drawers, which contained a lot of trivial sundries and some change.

damn it!

Darcy kicked the desk angrily, the solid wood desk barely moved, but his feet hurt terribly.

Darcy tightly held the letter from afar in his hand, he compromised and sat down slowly against the desk.The letter was torn directly.

This is a very long letter, written by a local pastor in Newcastle.

Darcy wrote to him more than half a month ago in order to find out what was wrong with Skye.But in the process of waiting for the letter to be sent back, some tacit understanding gradually formed between Darcy and Skye. This kind of letter exchange was originally unnecessary.

Now he wanted to look again, to see what Skye's past was like.

It wasn't for the hard words from the tax officer, but under the priest's pen, Skye's past should be more vivid.

What prompted Darcy to do this was his own inexplicable emotions.

A letter was only half read when someone ran up the stairs.The sound of footsteps didn't sound like a cleaner from a hotel or a servant from Pemberley. Although Darcy heard it, he didn't make any movements. His eyes were still fixed on the letter with occasional grammatical omissions.

The door of the room was pushed open by someone.

Darcy was in no mood to look up, and the man who came was rude enough to have no habit of knocking.

"Da... Da... Mr. Darcy..." begins with a big stutter.Darcy heard this person's voice, although it was a little hoarse because of the firefighting all night, but it was still a familiar person.

"Wilkey?" He was still saying that others were hoarse, but when he opened his mouth, he said the same thing.

"You are the most emotional person I have ever met. You are so sad when Skye died." Witkey carefully wanted to say something comforting, but he himself felt that something was wrong when he said it.

"What are you looking for me for?"

"Ah! That's it...don't be too sad. Skye has some things entrusted to me, saying it's for you..."

Everything was too hasty when fighting the fire, and Witkey was not a person who could sort things out, so he forgot about it when he got excited.

When he and Anna got home, they began to worry whether the sentimental Mr. Darcy might have anything to worry about.While discussing this matter, I saw the huge box next to the bed.

— Skye deposited some things with freelancers after the wedding.

He had ordered not to open it, but the couple never opened it.

Along with the box, there was also a scribbled letter, which was folded into paper and paper by Skye. Look at the meaning.