“And that’ll be one short-arsed conversation,” growled Dow.
“You’re the chief.” Tul turned and strode off through the trees.
“It’s decided.” And Black Dow followed him.
“Uh,” said Grim, shrugging his shoulders and making off with the other two.
“But,” muttered the Dogman. “Hold on…”
They’d gone. So he guessed that made him chief.
He stood there for a moment, blinking, not knowing what to think. He was never leader before. He didn’t feel no different. He didn’t have any ideas, all of a sudden. No notions of what to tell men to do. He felt like an idiot. Even more of one than usual.
He knelt down, between the graves, and he stuck his hand in the soil, and he felt it cold and wet around his fingers. “Sorry, girl,” he muttered. “Didn’t deserve this.” He gripped the ground tight, and he squeezed it in his palm. “Fare you well, Threetrees. I’ll try and do what you’d have done. Back to the mud, old man.”
And he stood up, and he wiped his hand on his shirt, and he walked away, back to the living, and left the two of them behind him in the earth.
Acknowledgments
Four people without whom…
Bren Abercrombie, whose eyes are sore from reading it
Nick Abercrombie, whose ears are sore from hearing about it
Rob Abercrombic, whose fingers are sore from turning the pages
Also…
Jon Weir, for putting the word out
Simon Spanton, for not putting the boot in
And who could forget…
Gillian Redfearn, who not only made it happen, but made it better
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