22 THE SANUK EMPLOYMENT AGENCYLek slipped out of bed as quietly as she could at the first sign of dawn, at about five thirty. She was anxious about her brothers, but she didn’t want to ring them in case they had gone home to bed already. She could see lights shining in other houses and hear the pom-pom-pom of women crushing spices in their giant pestles and mortars. She put one of Craig’s shirts on over her nightie as she often did and went straight to her computer, something which she had never done before first thing in the morning.
The fact that she was behaving more like Craig was not lost on her. She fired it up and read her emails. There were only a few, but that was what she had expected, most people would have gone to bed before her and were only getting up now. The majority of th
