However, our pilgrimage had not yet ended.
In fact, it had only just begun:
“This place isn’t safe, Lai,” Rex declared. “We’re too easy a target. Let’s go somewhere else—we need a roof.”
“Where the hell do you want to go, Rex?” Alexander roared, his voice still sounding very thick and affected, furious. “Those filthy animals blew Johanna’s house into the air. Where the f**k do you expect us to go now? We can’t go down to town like this, and let me remind you that if not like this, then naked.”
He gestured with his snout, pointing at his colleague’s gallant semi-animal figure.
Andre turned his head inside the hood to look at Rex.
“What about the sawmill?” Nika was heard saying softly. “It’s three times closer than the city.”
She approached us, still brandishing the rifle as if it wer
