Cold Earth by Sarah Moss

Author:Sarah Moss [Moss, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847082879
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2010-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

She pushed her hair back and looked up. ‘She’s not well. I don’t mind.’

I sat on my preferred stone and stretched my legs out. Catriona watched the pan and the last birds flew through the dusk.

‘You finished your burial?’

Burial doesn’t finish. That’s the point.

‘One out. Ben’s halfway through another. We’ve left him in situ with the tarps over.’

She looked round at Nina’s tent, from which no sound came, and dropped her voice.

‘Are there more?’

I spoke normally. ‘Looks like it. At least another three or four, could be more.’

Nina rustled. ‘I wish you wouldn’t,’ she said.

‘Wouldn’t what, Nina?’ I asked.

‘You’re disturbing them. They won’t like it.’

I looked at Catriona, who was stirring the water into a vortex. ‘Nina, it’s an archaeological dig. We came here to disturb them.’

‘They won’t like it.’

‘Nina?’ said Catriona. ‘Do you want to help me cook? It’s going to have to be pasta and pesto. We had noodles yesterday.’

The zip on Nina’s tent went up and her torch beamed out, making the twilight suddenly darker. Her face appeared, uplit and hollow.

‘Don’t overcook the pasta. Use lots of water. There’s nothing else to get wrong.’

‘What shall we have for pudding?’

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