"nest" a five minute freewrite

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This is the freewrite challenge. I am using mariannewest@mariannewest’s #freewrite prompt to write this piece (https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-585-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-nest)

Today’s prompt is:

nest

This is part two of a new freewrite series.

You can find part one if you are interested

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Kelly flicked through her phone, not really absorbing any of the information it was giving her.

Blah, blah, blah government forces making advances against the rebels, blah, blah, blah another rebel executed.

It was the same news, just recycled every day. She yearned to access the Blacklisted sites. Find out what was really happening. But even if she was using an encrypted phone - which she wasn't, of course - it would have been too dangerous. She looked up and caught the serving girl staring at her.

Spies were everywhere.

She caught a movement at the door. A man standing outside looking around him. She wondered if he was looking to see if he was being followed or just waiting for someone. He had a strange hairstyle. Light in colour it was long, tangled and sticking upwards. It looked like he was wearing a nest on his head. She suppressed a smile as he pushed open the door and entered the coffee shop.

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As usual, I started with the freewrite prompt and used themostdangerouswritingapp.com to write the first five minutes (and then popped it into google docs to check for errors and tidy it up a bit):

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