Andrew had no idea where the shoes had come from or why he was wearing them. He wished he wasn’t wearing them, but because he seemed to be somewhat frozen it was impossible for him to remove them and consequently, he was stuck with them. The brown leather shoes were one of a few things that Andrew couldn’t fathom; along with his running clothes, which he shouldn’t still be wearing, and his running shoes, which were misplaced, why was Margaret missing? Why was his memory distorted? Why couldn’t he move? And why was there an extremely annoying, high-pitched beeping noise continually repeating in the background somewhere. The latter was annoying Andrew greatly, especially since he couldn’t find the source of it. It wasn’t a doorbell because they didn’t have one (they had an old-fashioned brass door knocker which Margaret had, naturally, chosen and which Andrew secretly loved), and it was distinctly different to a car or house alarm. The incessant beeping, however, whatever it was, was annoying Andrew almost as much as the fact that he couldn’t move from his armchair, and almost as much as those hideous brown leather, designer shoes currently on his feet.

Whatever Andrew’s feelings were towards the shoes, however, he couldn’t shake the feeling that he had seen them somewhere before, and recently, and that they were important somehow.


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