What is the meaning of it? Three creaks, three weeks? If she comes back for her shoes in three days, then I only need to empty them another three tim… - Helen Oyeyemi

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What is the meaning of it? Three creaks, three weeks? If she comes back for her shoes in three days, then I only need to empty them another three times. If it really is three weeks that were meant, what then. If three months, what then. Three years. That's why I had to write it down now. By then I may no longer believe I heard anything in Miri's room.”