Christine was in the shop alone, as she let Ellie out of the house to eat dinner with her family and play with her friends. She was young and it was important to the woman that her servant still enjoyed her child hood a little longer.  She was restless and was boredly staring at her small abode. The rows upon rows that surrounded her like a tomb, full of books. It gave the place a familiar smell that she wasn't sure ever truly left her. She had gone to the front of the store and pulled open the windows to let in some air, leaning out on her elbows as she looked around at people passing.

She offered a smile to a few and watched some lovely faces pass by with a little wave. This was a busy town and yet she had met so few people. This was really an uneducated town full of illiterates who cared more about their jobs than even considering reading a book. She couldn't truly blame them. Who wants to read when you have to put food on the table or could do something like run wild in the woods or play at the beach, it was warm enough, right? She chewed her lip in thought and then promptly shut the windows and locked them.

"She won't be back for hours",she told herself as she stepped out and locked the door behind her. She glanced around and took a direction that would lead out to some nature. She would feel the grass in between her toes that day or die trying.