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‘Yeah.’
‘Did you hear the people on early duty telling the Waces they’d seen her leaving on the truck with Cherie?’
‘Why the fuck d’you wanna know tha’?’
‘Did you hear them saying she’d left in the truck?’
‘I’m not gonna talk for them. Ask them what they seen.’
‘I’m asking what you heard, when you woke up.’
Apparently deciding this answer couldn’t incriminate him, Reaney finally muttered,
‘Yeah… they seen ’er leave.’
‘Were Jonathan and Mazu both present at the farm when you woke up?’
‘Yeah.’
‘How soon did you find out Daiyu had drowned?’
‘Can’ remember.’
‘Try.’
The tiger rippled yet again. The blue eyes blinked, over-hard.
‘Later that mornin’. The police come. Wiv Cherie.’
‘Was she distressed about Daiyu drowning?’
‘’Course she fuckin’ was,’ said Reaney.
‘Cherie left the farm for good shortly before you did, right?’
‘Can’ remember.’
‘I think you can.’
Reaney sucked in his hollow cheeks. Strike had a feeling this was a habitual expression prior to violence. He looked steadily back at Reaney, who blinked first, hard.
‘Yeah, she wen’ after the inquiry fing.’
‘The inquest?’
‘Yeah.’
‘And she didn’t tell you where she was going?’
‘Didn’t tell no one. She left in the middle of the night.’
‘And what made you leave?’
‘Jus’ ’ad enough of the place.’
‘Did Draper leave when you did?’
‘Yeah.’
