What Is Not an Obstacle

The following Thursday, the appointment at the labour inspectorate is cancelled an hour beforehand by a terse message: the inspector is ill, it will be rescheduled.

Salomé is already in Vénissieux. So is Yanis.

They find themselves outside a closed administrative building, at five past two, with a two-hour slot that the service has already paid for and that nobody can give back.

— Coffee? signs Yanis.