When I first arrived on the island, I had spent several months sleeping underneath a chair in the compound. People had come and gone around me, and I, for the most part, had been unable to make out their words or understand the motive of their journeying. Bu there had at least been people ( Read more... )

It had been several days now that Mimi had not been feeling well. I had seen it before, but it worried me, the way her skin had grown dull and her energy flagged. This evening I had been dancing, and then had gone to the compound to fetch food to bring back for both of us for dinner ( Read more... )