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Prema couldn't really say, later, how she had gotten so involved with Timothy's dad and the sea turtles, or how she had been turned into a translator, a mediator, really, between the two sides: pro turtle and pro food. It started with a walk along the beach and continued with a motorbike ride. Timothy had been cleaning his room while Isaac slept. He pulled out the old toothbrush, which made it obvious to Prema that he needed time alone, though he didn't seem to know how to say it. She suggested that she and David look for Linus and go for a walk.
They found Linus on the steps to his beach hut, across the way from David's hut. He was playing his guitar. The man who ran the restaurant and beach huts that were called, inexplicably, Golden Watch, was hosing off a large plastic table not t
