Cassie refused to drop it. While I moved away to the nearest table to study the chapter about the Fates, she undertook to read every accessible sheets.

Around half an hour later, she suddenly dropped a stack of a dozen of books on my desk.

Cassie pointed a triumphing finger on our friend’s name on the borrowing card.

« Is it really surprising that she loaned it ? This is the very least, I said.

- This is a trace from her, real, on paper ! Let’s look for another one ! »

I embraced the Mythology department. Antic and European myths alone occupied three bookcases.

—> « We are digressing. I prefer focus on the Fates myth. » I said.

—> Trying to retain a new sneeze I agreed to check every loading sheets to know where Hannah had passed.

« What does it mean ? asked Cassie who where reading over my shoulder.

- Hannah is obsessed by choices. One time she stood in front of a vending machine for about fifteen minutes.

‘’ If I don’t know what I want right now, what would change inside me in several minutes and make me decide for something ?’’ That’s what she said.

- People behind her would be fulminating against her…

- Actually, the machine was broken, she just didn’t notice this detail.

- This is true. She is… special. »

Cassie leaned against the shelving.

« This text about the Fates… Did you find other papers about this in the library ?

- Nothing, I already searched for it.

- This is the end of this track. We should look for something else. »

I sighed and I replaced the book on its shelf, but Cassie held it back immediately and opened it at the last page.

The Fates, the Moirai, the Parcae. Three merciless sisters reigning over human lives. Clotho, the younger  (or the less faded) draws a thread for our birth. Lachesis measures it with her rod, while Atropos the eldest cuts it and chooses the manner a person will die.

Numerous mythologies worldwide report similar stories : Greek, Roman, Slavic, Etruscan, Scandinavian… Everywhere human have seen in weaver yarns metaphors of their lives.

« Why didn’t you just settle for research on the Internet ?

- I’m always trying to find primary sources, looking for the original version, I explained pulling my glassed up. The information concerning Hannah in one way or another are unstable. I have found some tiny traces about her on the web but they quickly disappeared. They must have been deleted, I can’t find anything new now. »

Hopefully, books are harder to erase. There will always be vestiges of this old legend…

I opened the book.