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Date Posted: Sat, July 22 2023, 9:09:15
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Saturday, July 22, 2023

The following quotation is from Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. Chapter 77 City Of Brotherly Love


He wondered whether there was a Gaelic charm or prayer to cover the disposal of the body of someone ye’d murdered, but if there was, he didn’t know it. The Mohawk had prayers, all right, but they didn’t bother much wi’ the dead.
“I'll ask Uncle Jamie later,” he said to Fredericks, under his breath. “And if there is one, I’ll say it for ye. For now, though, ye’re on your own.”

He felt his way over the cold, hard face, located the empty eye socket, and drove the sharp end of his branch into it as hard as he could. The scrape of bark and wood on bone and then the sudden yielding raised the hairs across his shoulders and down his arms.

Then he dragged the body to the edge of the raving and pushed it over. For a moment he feared it wouldn’t move, but it slid on the pine needles and, after a long moment, rolled almost lazily, once, twice, and disappeared into the brush at the bottom with a muffled crunch that was scarcely to be heard above the rising wind.

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[> I don’t remember why he stabbed the stick through his eye? He was already dead, right? -- Kathy in PA, Sun, July 23 2023, 17:33:46


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[> [> Ian wanted it to appear as though it had been an accident or had happened in the wood where he tossed him over the edge. The original stick was from a fruit tree, which might have been traced to Sylvia's place. He took that with him to burn the evidence. -- kgp, Mon, July 31 2023, 16:02:11


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