INTRO
She had been sitting staring into nowhere for a while, for how long she didn't know. Her head was going in circles, her mind was asking a thousand questions at the same time. But she couldn't find the answers. And there she was in the city that was hers, in the place that was her safe secret spot, where everyone knew her by name, but she felt alone in the middle of the crowd. Alone. So she did the only thing that seemed reasonable at the time.
"Hey Jimmy, can I borrow your phone?" – she asked him. He gave it to her without hesitation and with no questions.
She searched for that one particularly number, for that one particularly someone. She had found it and so she called.
"Hi Captain." – she heard on the other side of the line.
"It's not Jimmy..." – she simply said. She didn't have to say her name, he had recognized her voice. "So ... I was wondering... if ... well... it might sound stupid... well, could you come pick me up at the Hotel...? Something happened and I ... and I... I just need to get out of here..." – her voice was trembling. Her ask seemed almost like a begging, a rescue.
"Sure..." – he said. And then he hung up.