Eichi brought the seaplane down on the destroyed Port of Eden. The buildings that had formed one of the most beautiful harbours in Africa now lay in heaps of debris and rabble. Canoes, luxury boats and ships lay mangled along the pier. A heavy oil spillage covered part of the seawater within the harbour. And then there were the bones! Heaps and heaps of scattered bones and skulls, a grim reminder that the purple visitor had been at its most devastating in this part of the world. The son of Eli stood on the top step of the seaplane and surveyed the destruction with cold eyes. This was a horrible testimony of how people had suffered and died here. And, most importantly, it was a heavy reminder that this was personal. These bones were his people, his citizens, and there could even

