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One can own nothing but oneself En novelle af Ninna Schrøder A hand came and grabbed the green hiking trousers that were tossed in the cabinet. An immanent fear was awakened in the worn trousers as a result of the action, and perhaps also a bit of anger or both messed up in the same feeling. The trousers pretended not to notice the feelings, but they were brewing beneath the surface.
“Are you sure it’s a good idea to go out today Misha?” a voice asked from
across the room.
“I never had problems before even though it was pouring” the owner of
the hand, and the trousers, replied.
“Great I only had a short nap today and now he wants to use me again”
thought the trousers, meanwhile preparing itself for the worst. Sometimes a gentle awakening is all you need, but that never happened since the owner of the trousers moved to western Cameroon. It could easily remember the good old days and how the alarm rang in the morning with a sudden outburst, how the canary bird was chipping away as if a simple signal from the clock allowed it to keep disturbing long after the alarm was put off, and how even though all the sounds were loud and annoying, no danger lured in the corners. The bird was a friend, and the trousers would just keep sleeping until the iron warmed it up on the board. The hiking trousers now got stretched out across two legs, which resulted in pain from the open wound, and without ironing the trousers followed the legs all the way up to the hip. A brown belt was strapped around the waist and before the trousers could refuse, the belt was entangled in its strops. The trousers had to share the small space with the belt and even though they knew each other very well, their earlier conflict overshadowed their otherwise good mood. At daybreak a shot was heard in the southwest and Misha wanted to protect what he thought belonged to him. In the split second the shot was heard he grabbed a knife and stuck it in the sheath in his brown belt. The movement was done so violently that the knife scratched a small hole in the green trou-
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