Der Schlange Gift

A strange group of people, these, he thought. Nothing tied them down. They seem to believe in nothing. But well, they had given him a bed. She had given it to him. She who was the strangest of them all.

An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma.

Leah left him and he collapsed in a heap. She looked down and spat. The she raised her heel and brought it down on his face.