Chapter 10 - Charlene - Phil's LoversEventually Phil decided he could no longer stand the smell of the dead body lying directly above him, so transferred his sleeping gear to the main bedroom. It was painful and took longer than he wanted, but he managed to drag himself under the bed in the main bedroom. He wrapped himself in the doona and, in a light fever, he fell asleep, exhausted from the effort.
He was still asleep when the patrol came down the street. They went from door to door firing and throwing grenades into each house. It took them most of the day to reach the house Phil was hiding in, but by that time they'd run out of grenades.
The old man was shivering both from fear and the summer heat, he was also running a fever. His leg was swollen and inflamed. The pain of his injury h
