Buffalo Mountain, above Frisco (Colorado)
Scene 2: Verdict on the Mountaintop
How Hektor Maille, after an arduous and sweaty climb over the boulders and a long look over the vast expanse of the Rocky Mountains, hears the heart of a trapper pounding in his chest and smells a whiff of cumin in his armpits.
One Day in the Life of Odette Sissay
11.00: R3 from Senpuav to Port-Louis
As Odette drove along the R3 in the direction of Port-Louis, she pulled out a pack of small Hoyo Petit-Robustos that Marie had given her. The pack came from a stock of official gifts in the Deuxième Bureau. «It would be a shame if they were allowed to simply wither in a cupboard», Marie had remarked. Odette appreciated Marie's sense of practicality, for she cherished all that was pragmatic. She rarely smoked, but in Hektor Maille's car she lit up and inhaled deeply with pleasure, perhaps because she knew how livid her employer would be if he got even a vague smell of sour nicotine sediment in his automobile.