Island. How the hell did he propose William should get there? By rowing boat? The client suggested they start with a trial run on one of the Saldanha islands. William remembered Marion Island. He’d done a stint there in his student days. How tame the albatrosses were. You could stroke their massive wings. It was one of the few things that had ever brought him to tears – the trusting innocence of those island creatures.
There was another mail from his wealthy birding enthusiast: did William think it might be possible to erect a camera on a pole above a fish eagle nest he knew about on a farm near Gourits in time for the breeding season? Once, an idea like this would have kept him awake for hours. How to set up the camera so that no one knew it was there; how to do it without disturbing the birds. Solar-powered, of course. Depending on the distance from the farmhouse, it might require satellite. But tonight William felt as broken down as the webcam on his workbench. How many people had he spoken to today? Each one of them had carried away one of his working parts. Only rest could reassemble him. He returned to the bedroom, lay down next to the boy and closed his eyes.
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