His Heart Is Now Elsewhere

hapter 13

When the plane landed in Mardale, it was exactly midnight.

The immigration officer looked through the documents and asked some routine questions.

“Ms. Kinsley Reed, may I ask how long you were planning to stay in Swoeburg?”

“Hello, I received an offer from Mardale University and it required two years to complete the

program.”

Upon hearing her fluent Swoeburg language, the immigration officer no longer gave her a hard time and stamped her passport for clearance.

After Maeve, no, it was Kinsley who politely thanked and took the luggage, leaving the airport.

She held her newly bought phone and searched for the location of the hotel, then hailed a taxi.

The driver, an Australian Chinese of Asian descent, saw her face and immediately started chatting

with her.

In a foreign land, Kinsley felt a strong sense of familiarity when he heard his mother tongue.

As they chatted along the way, the driver sister told her a lot of things to pay attention to in Mardale, and she wrote them all down.

When they arrived at the hotel, before parting ways, the two of them exchanged contact

information.

helped her to put the luggage into

card and, upon seeing the clean and tidy room, felt a wave of relaxation wash over

things and went downstairs to have dinner. After coming back, she freshened up and lay down on the soft big bed, soon falling asleep.

good night’s sleep.

next afternoon at two o’clock, she woke

unfamiliar room, she still felt a bit uncomfortable.

neatly five minutes to finally realize that she had left Crowmount and

midsummer in Mardale, and the weather was

having some lunch, she hailed a taxi and went to the vicinity of the school

and handed over

new house, she looked around and made a note of all the things that needed to be purchased. Then, she hired a cleaner to clean the

to the apartment with

the next few days, Kinsley bought many essential items,

roommate who would

also adapted to the local

she had excellent cooking skills, she smoothly joined the

played with two neighboring

took her out shopping, introduced nearby restaurants to

attractions.

skills were recognized by new

Mardale, Kinsley completed the

looked at the newly arrived three hundred