The Cure is Murder – Chapter 9

“I work in IT,” he said.
Sabrina shrugged. She was expecting something much more exciting.
“AI,” Oskar added. “Telepathy and all that.”
Sabrina leant forward. “What do you mean? Mind reading?”
Oskar laughed. It was a deep guttural laugh as if it were trying to hide some pain.
“Are you ok?” Sabrina said.
Oskar nodded and inched closer to her. Sabrina felt a tiny whizz of something.
“You have to be careful.”
“What do you mean?”
“Know any Orwell?”
“Of course. From school.”
“Bradbury? Huxley?”
Sabrina nodded. Where was this strange conversation going? She was curious and had to admit, the tiniest bit scared.
“Remember the first lines of their novels?”
“Sabrina shook her head.”
“They will save you, “Oskar said and coughed.
“Save me? Save me from what?”
“It´s all in the literature. Writers know these things.”

“Hi there you, two. What are you plotting?” Reinhold stood before them, blocking out the sun. “Do you want to come with me to the local museum?”
Sabrina peaked an eyebrow. “All that WWI and II memorabilia?”
“The owner has some interesting stories,” Reinhold said and winked at Oskar who didn´t react.

“Can Trude come along?”
Reinhold nodded. “If Oskar doesn´t want to …”
Oskar shook his head. “I´m familiar with the offerings in the hangar,” he said.

The Hangar Museum was arranged in islands with everything from jeeps to tanks and planes, dummies in uniform from both wars, flags, flags, flags. 
How I hate flags, Sabrina thought. Incredible how all that waving of bits of material can cause so much hate and destruction. She felt a tug on her sleeve.

“It´s him,” Trude hissed.
“Who?” said Sabrina.
“Don’t look. The man.”
“If I don’t look, I won´t see the man,” Sabrina hissed back.
“It´s the man I saw in the café. Shh. Here he comes.”

“Good morning, Ladies. Gentleman. I am glad you are interested in all the material I have here. It´s the largest private collection of wartime memorabilia.”
“I heard that Hitler was an honorary citizen of Waidhofen right up to 2011,” Sabrina said.
“Not just Waidhofen,” the man said. “But please do not think there is any glorification of times gone by,” he added. “That is, of course, against the law.”
“Of course,” Sabrina said. But the laws were a changing lately.