[The tablet reads out his written words, and bit by bit Kesara's face crumples again, her control too fragile and slippery now to hold. She understands. A few days can be a very long time.
She swallows hard, throat working with it. But this is not certainty. It's only a risk. They all take risks. She's taken a risk just the other night...]
You need to... Mr. Solomons, listen. Food is the least important thing. People can live a long time without food. Even a few days without water. The cold will kill you first of all. So even if you are hungry and tired you must move. And you must sleep but only a little, because in the cold once you sleep too deeply, that is when you never wake. Do you know what to do?
[Maybe he already knows. But if he is a London man, a city man, then this is knowledge she has and he might not have. And he can have it for free.]
You shouldn't worry about me - I'm safe - but there are ways to survive while waiting for supplies. If you know how.
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She swallows hard, throat working with it. But this is not certainty. It's only a risk. They all take risks. She's taken a risk just the other night...]
You need to... Mr. Solomons, listen. Food is the least important thing. People can live a long time without food. Even a few days without water. The cold will kill you first of all. So even if you are hungry and tired you must move. And you must sleep but only a little, because in the cold once you sleep too deeply, that is when you never wake. Do you know what to do?
[Maybe he already knows. But if he is a London man, a city man, then this is knowledge she has and he might not have. And he can have it for free.]
You shouldn't worry about me - I'm safe - but there are ways to survive while waiting for supplies. If you know how.