“Yes, that’s what I was thinking too. We’ll tell people that some internal changes brought about by anaemia, that’s lack of red blood cel s, have caused you to become albino and so sensitive to light.
“I wouldn’t go around telling people that you drink blood though. Say that you are on an iron-enriched diet and if they ask what that is, tell them red meat, green-leafed vegetables like cabbage and iron tablet supplements. We’l have to make you some of those, they won’t hurt anyway. Nobody here wil know any better and if anybody wants to know more, just steer them towards me and I wil blind them with a mixture of mumbo-jumbo and science.”
“Al right, Aunty Da, thanks, I’ll do that. Now ask me the question you are dying to ask.”
“OK, but how did you kno
