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Nina wanted to reach Edinburgh before her friend's neighbor went to bed . The neighbor was keeping the key . If Nina arrived late , she would have a city and no door . The screen at the airport said her flight was cancelled . A staff member offered a seat on a plane the next morning and pointed to a queue for questions . The queue was already long . People were asking about hotels , receipts , and what the airline owed them . Nina had read that in the European Union a cancelled flight can give a passenger a claim , and that the details depend on the route and the airline . She also knew the neighbor would not wait forever . She stepped out of the queue and looked up trains . There was still a departure from London King's Cross to Edinburgh that evening . It was not the plan she had bought , and it would take hours rather than a short hop , but it would move while the queue stood still . Before she left the airport she photographed the cancellation and wrote the airline's name under the photo . Then she took a train into the city , changed for King's Cross , and bought a ticket north . The claim could wait . The train could not . On the platform she bought water and a sandwich and did not try to make the evening pleasant . She texted her friend one sentence : the flight is cancelled , I am on the train , please tell the neighbor . Then she put the phone in her bag . Refreshing the airline app would not shorten the ride . The carriage was full of people who had changed their plans as well . A man across the aisle was speaking softly to someone about a meeting in the morning . Nina did not join anyone's story . She watched the station lights slide back , then the dark , then a town she could not name . Somewhere past the middle of the journey her friend wrote back : the neighbor will wait . Nina read it once and left the message on the screen . She did not open the compensation rules on the train . The photo and the airline's name were enough for a form tomorrow , and tomorrow was a different job . Tonight she only needed to arrive while a key was still waiting on the other side of a door .
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