1st Sunday of Advent

[Elmebeck 378]

1st of Advent is supposed to symbolize hope.

Elmebeck shrugged it off, the fervent atheist he was, but somewhere at his core - whether that was from upbringing or something intangible and hidden in his nature - he couldn't feel but a feeling of relief... and hope.

The move into his New York apartment was finished, his father settling down more and more up north in Saskatoon, and it all coincided with December 1st and the first Sunday of Advent.

His father had called earlier talking about the Whitetail tracks in the snow outside the small cottage in Saskatoon, while New York was draped in lights, red and green in anticipation of Christmas and the new year. For once, perhaps, Christmas wasn't early.

He picked up his trunk - at Americans you had people who took care of your equipment for you, but he preferred to do it himself, including profiling and sharpening his blades personally - and headed for practise.