The Preservationist by David Maine

Author:David Maine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2004-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

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His day is simplified to its most basic elements:

1. Breathe.

2. Sleep.

3. Wake, or half-wake, into a foggy semi-delirium in which he chokes out half-intelligible words: Nigh tangles! or possibly Night angles! or maybe even Nightingales! Or perhaps something else entirely—Nice angels?—or nothing.

4. Sip a little water from the cup the wife holds to his chin. Sip a little broth.

5. Chew a piece of carrot or flatbread, swallow it or spit it to dribble down his chin.

6. Have his forehead dabbed with a wet cloth, usually by the wife, sometimes Bera or Mirn.

7. Lapse into moments of hot-eyed lucidity, in which he growls questions about the weather (bad), the boat (stable), the animals (surviving, most of them), land sighted (none), the family (fine, fine, don’t worry about us). Sometimes he gnaws a bit more bread or offers a quick prayer before lapsing again into restless, fevered sleep.

8. Repeat the cycle.

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