Lily King Quotes

The Initiate, A Boy Of No More Than Twelve, Was Wailing And A Group Of Older Boys Were Holding Him Down On A Log While A Few Men Cut Into Him, Making Hundreds Of Small Slits On His Back And Shoulders. They Dropped A Citrus Mixture Into Each Wound So That The Skin Would Puff Up And The Scars Would Be Raised And Textured To Look Like Crocodile Skin. His Blood Had Soaked The Log In Dark Striations. When They Were Done They Painted Him With Oil And Turmeric And Smeared Him With White Clay And Carried Him Off Weeping And Half Conscious Into Seclusion Until He Healed. Fen And I Walked Down To The Beach. I'd Seen Dozens

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