Cleaning him.I crawled up to his head. Kissed him and told him how much I loved him. He muttered something. He was clearly still out of it. Conscious ...ut incoherent. I smiled and kissed his lips. ‘Too much, my mate?’He gasped. Breathed. ‘What was it you said? Oh … my … god. Ditto.’I walked out to the beach and pulled out our mat from the hut. Spread it out on a smooth spot I had earlier prepared. The night sky was clear. There were literally millions of stars blinking back to me in the darkness. While the lead bearers carefully attached one to each of the chief’s truncated thighs, Rebecca wondered how the chief lost his legs in the first place. She hoped they weren’t lost in battle. A glance about the processional failed to uncover weapons of any kind—unless they were hidden beneath the food, or tables and chairs, prior to leaving the village. Rebecca wondered where the village was located, and what it looked like.Standing with the assistance of his lead bearers, the chief steadied. Bad decision.” I was positively ravenous. I had some honeyed grain and dried fruit stored somewhere. My belly thought that my throat had been cut. I slowly sipped water and ate my fruit confection that had been put up in mid-summer. I sat on my chair and pulled on my britches. What had happened? They were too short by over a handspan. Still, I pulled them on, took up my knife and made my way to the smoke house. I was prepared to put some muscle into carving free a piece of dessicated meat to. . You know, I feel have a new perspective on life—”“What, do you have a new man in your—?”“No, nothing like that, Juss, it’s only that I’m building new friendships and, well, now I just want to be able to right a few wrongs. Look, I would like you to ask Hector if he could do me a favour —”“Anything, honey, he feels just as bad about this as I do.”“Hector is a top QC, and my lodger was ... well, he was in a lot of trouble in his youth twenty odd years ago and I hoped you’d ask Hector to meet my.