Page 7 of Cosy & Chill
Nudging Coincidence
Roisin was glad that she hadn’t eaten dinner yet. The fear cramping her belly would have made her stomach reject the food, and vomiting was plain unpleasant.
She hid in the shadow of a doorway and watched the two young men amble up the road, talking as if they’d been friends for years and hadn’t just met that night.
They stopped at the far end of the High Street, and Roisin’s breathing quickened when she saw which store had drawn their attention. The old gentlemen’s outfitters had stood empty since the previous February. It was the store that called to her, the store she was desperate to enter.
The streetlights picked out Finn’s and Leo’s hair, and Roisin’s heart beat almost out of her chest. Had she been trapped in the human realm for twelve hundred years because she’d been too dense to solve a riddle? Or was this just another shiny thought to chase and discard when it tarnished?
“This old store would make a wonderful yarn shop. Imagine all these shelves filled with wool.” The copper-haired young man spoke in a wistful tone. And the golden-haired one answered in kind.
She needed copper and gold to find the silver.
She had copper and gold right in front of her.
Was this her doing, or did the human males’ innate desires drive their choices?
Roisin didn’t know.
She’d made contact with both young men—a tiny, brief touch to weave a connection—but she couldn’t meddle too much in their lives lest the rules backfire on her. What she could do, though, was enhance existing desires and remove obstacles. She could nudge the two towards her desired choice as long as it was also theirs.
Right now, the two desires aligned.
Roisin watched as the two walked down the street, listened as their voices faded into the night. She contemplated the empty store. Its fabric held the dreams of generations. Adding those of the two young men along with her own didn’t seem unreasonable.
