Claire sent a photograph on a Thursday afternoon in the third week of February.She had sent photographs before — the site photographs Colin sent and passed to the family, the building at various stages, the slab and the walls rising and the roof timber beginning. He had come to expect them from Claire, the forwarded photographs with Claire's precise annotation: north wall to first floor, south-west corner, approach beam in the soffit. Claire gave the family the building's progress in the language of the section, the photographs placed against the drawings.This photograph was different.The photograph was not of the building. It was in Ada.Ada in the south field of the rented house — the field adjacent to the rented house, the field they walked across to reach the land. The February field, the winter grass still flat and brown, the trees at the field's edge in their February bare. And Ada in the centre of the field, not standing, not walking — sitting. On the ground, cross-legged, f
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