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banged on the door and called out his name but there was no response. Finally the bravest among them
opened the door. Immediately a horrifically strong yeasty stench poured out of the room, making them
gag.

Choking, two of them reluctantly entered the room and switched on the light. The others crowded around
the doorway.

To begin with none of them could comprehend what they were looking at. Then one of the girls screamed
and ran down the passageway.

Eric GiffordтАЩs head, one of his arms, and both of his legs still lay on the bed but the rest of him was
spread fairly thickly over the ceiling, walls and floors.

And in the depression in the bed created by his 250-pound bulk over the years lay a bubbling and seething
white mass.




Wednesday, 2.15 a.m.

Naseem and his brother Dinesh had managed to clear the last customer out of the restaurant by 2.00 a.m.
and were now helping Maheed, their uncle, clean up in the kitchen.

Naseem was exhausted. He disliked working these long hours but it was the only way heтАЩd be able to save
enough money to return to Delhi for good. His other uncle, Makund, who owned the restaurant, as well as
two others, was not an easy man to work for but he paid well if you worked hard.

His brother Dinesh was humming a new Indian pop song as he finished scouring the stove. Naseem
regarded him wearily, envying him his energy and his continual high spirits.

Dinesh was a mystery to him in many ways. For one thing he seemed quite content to stay on in England
and had hopes of opening up a restaurant of his own. To Naseem the idea of spending the rest of his
working life in this depressing, gray country and waiting on its increasingly surly and ill-mannered
inhabitants was profoundly depressing.



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He remembered the two men heтАЩd served earlier that night, the fat one and the thin one, and scowled.
тАЬPigs,тАЭ he muttered. тАЬWhy do we get so many pigs in this place?тАЭ

Dinesh laughed. тАЬBecause it is place that makes pig food.тАЭ He gestured at the food scrap container which
was full up again. Naseem sighed and went and picked it up. тАЬThe pigs that eat this are probably better
behaved than the ones who sit in the restaurant.тАЭ

He carried the bin out the back door and into the alley. He was just about to empty the smaller bin into the
bigger one when he paused and blinked several times. But the apparition refused to go away.