"I"m glad you aren"t late," he said. "We must talk about making plans for you to go and rid us of this boar, although if it is a phantom, as many of my people believe, I don"t know quite how it"s to be done."
Pettic sat down on a rug next to the headman and said, "It may not be a phantom, you know. The people think it is because of its colour and the fact that it only seems to be seen at night. Sometimes, very rarely, an all white creature is produced. We call it an albino. They have no pigment in their skin and are very susceptible to sunlight as a result. Perhaps the boar is one of these.
Pettic rubbed his nose as a fly landed. "This may be why it"s only ever seen at night. As to its size, well, I"ve no ideas on that score except to say perhaps the descriptions have been exaggerated."
