Awakening: The World Dreamt and Imagined by Otto Mäkilä Page #5

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I've buried better men than him.

You see your own ghosts, too?

Are they with us now?

Your friends.

They look like my friends.

They don't have the right.

No amount of guilt deserves

the pain you inflict on yourself.

- They died. I lived.

- No, you didn't.

A life haunted

isn't a life at all.

We may as well

be ghosts ourselves.

Light a fire, get some glasses.

Someone once told me

it makes one cross and sick.

Tom, what... What is it? What's wrong?

Mother said it would be all right.

She said that you would want us to.

The loneliest boys are

starting to see Tom now,

but will he listen to me?

Will he hide? He needs you.

Maud, I'm going home.

Imagine what a fright you gave me

going in the lake like that

before you saw the truth.

But it's all right now.

Because he can have you forever.

Everything in its place.

Maud

knows best.

Robert!

Florence?

- Florence?

- Mr Mallory!

Florence and I will be leaving now.

Tom needs his family with him.

Florence? Florence?

Robert, the medicine cabinet

in Maud's room. Quickly.

Something to make me sick.

Something to make me sick.

Oh, God! No! No!

Tom?

Tom?

Don't be angry,

I just miss you.

All the time.

My whole life I've never been happy,

not one second since you left me.

But I can't... I can't... I can't come.

You know that, don't you?

You're the only friend I've ever had.

But if I go with you now,

my soul will never be happy, and I...

I can be, thanks to you.

But you won't need me.

No one will need me.

Tom, you must be brave.

Can you move through the house

like there are no walls?

No walls and no floors.

Help her, help her, help her!

Then fly, little Tom.

Fly.

Are you dead?

Are you dying?

I don't know.

I need to sleep.

I need to close my eyes.

I'll stay with you.

I promise.

Even if you can't see me.

I can...

I can feel you now.

I'll tell the boys

it was an accident, of course.

They'll be devastated. They adored her.

We all did. Uh-uh-uh.

I can only think the Walter incident

hit her harder than we thought.

Mind you,

the Cathcart girl didn't help.

I suspect she wasn't

altogether well herself.

You know, I read a study last term.

Ladies' minds often can't cope

with further education.

I know you're there.

That's more than your headmaster does.

I used to play here.

Hide and seek.

She would...

Maud would sit over there.

I'm thinking of writing another book.

The Interpretation of Ghosts.

Oh, God help us.

Victor, do your laces.

- Hello.

- Hello, again.

Actually, Robert,

can you tell the driver to wait for me

at the end of drive?

I like the walk.

I always have.

Till Saturday week.

Not seeing them...

It's not the same as forgetting.

It isn't.

- Hello.

- Hello.

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