" Good," he said. "Now to the menagerie."He gave her a coat from the pegs, then he took her round the farmyard, showing her the chicken run. "I need t... move it soon, they've scratched most of the grubs out of this ground."The pigs were inside their 'house'."A bit cold for them," he explained. "They're just about ready to go." You'll sell them?" They will go for slaughter," he said. "I'll get some of the meat – as much as I can deal with." Oh." She was quiet, as she looked at the two. "It probably will." The coffee talk and trial got me off track though. There are two things in the new cave that I have never seen before. They stick out from the wall but it is obvious they are carved from something, even though it is something I do not know about," he said."Let's go see if I know about it then."When he led me to the hot and cold faucets I was surprised. Of course I hadn't stayed in this cave very long but I hadn't noticed them at all. It wasn't all that odd though since it. " Ok hun, but don't be long."He heard them kiss again before his step-father left the room closing the door behind him. Suddenly, the curtain was pulled back and his Mother was standing over him in just a towel which was just a little too short from this angle. He made to say the words 'that was too close' but she clamped a hand over his mouth and leant towards his ear."Listen and listen well, you perverted little shit," Michael shuddered; he'd never imagined his Mother could talk like that and. A handful of grain, a few bunches of greens and roots and some thin strips of lizard flesh made a boiled stew. They ate from cups found in the wreckage of their village. Zareb found two spears hidden in a cache near the corrals, and a new shoulder bag. It held fire starter, a sharp knife, and a bundle of strong twine.Sadiya, her belly full, worked with the knife and some twine to better fit clothing for themselves from the less blood-soaked garments she'd stripped from the dead.Maalik, his.