Chapter 15

Xul-Zin and I lapsed onto silence for a minute or two before I hauled up the bag of potatoes. She didn’t specify what she wanted so I would just bring the bag back in. When I went out, Hazard was in the middle of the burnt pile with a shovel.

“Mom, you didn’t call him all the way out here to roast your pig, did you?”

The smile she showed me told me that’s exactly what she did. Hazard though, see