Alvin Morris, for a long purgatory of rum-sodden dread having existed as Barrister Pox, known chiefly for his legal wit and bad complexion, awakened with the dawn, as the first sliver of light illuminated the body of Ahmed, where he had been strangled by the Hinterlander.
Why Barrister Pox had been spared, except for some delayed vengeance, he could only…