Episode 98

We were many now, yes, but we weren't slaving away like we had to work for our lives or to survive, we were almost doing it leisurely. We were in no hurry after all.

And I quite honestly liked it like this, everyone chatted and joked while we worked. Daryl, class clown that he is, was keeping us very entertained alongside a guy named Lee and another man, a bit older, maybe in his forties, called Oscar, who had a very dry sense of humor.

I felt like we were coming together as a pack. No divisions here, no old pack members, no new pack members. We were all just the same.

So we all stopped working on the tables and those still dusting and sweeping inside all came out to help get the chairs out.

Two people had to grab a really high stack of chairs from the truck and gently carry it out and set it down. Then the stack would be disassembled and each chair was carried off and placed around where the tables were, but with enough spacing to make sure, washing and drying would be easy.

The chai