knowledge of what his father was about to do. “Beer?” he said to Susan, who nodded. He forgot to ask Jane.Din told them what her father had said and they al sat and watched as he took the tops off four empty half-litre spa-water bottles and half-fil ed them from the large bottle that Den had brought. Then he took the second and third carrier bags and tipped their contents over the table.
There were mosses, bits of bark, flowers, grasses and even a few dead beetles. He spent a lot of time careful y picking out items from the pile of ingredients that he had col ected while they were away and dropped some of them into different bottles making sure that no two bottles contained exactly the same ingredients. Then he topped them up to ful , shook them an
