The small room in the top flat of the old house is comforting and silent at five in the morning. It is nice to wake up there. The bathroom is one floor down, this is a minor discomfort. The kitchen is one floor down as well, this is another minor discomfort.
Carry the breakfast back upstairs, leave the family to sleep. Take one of the covid nineteen tests upstairs as well, in the hope that the infection has run its course. Eat the breakfast, read the news and then do the test. The test is positive, one bar a baleful red and the other not quite as red. But both lines are clearly visible. There can be no doubt about that.
Take the breakfast things down to the kitchen, and drink the remainder of the pot of coffee. The family, and apparently the cat, are asleep.
Today, it will be possible to read a book in peace and quiet, and to maintain quarantine from the family and from the rest of the universe.
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