It was Chris that took us from the office into the highlands. I’m not woodsy like him and Lee. He said it’d be a good weekend. Stalking. Drinking. Eating.
But he didn’t say a word the whole drive up. In fact the first thing he said to me was during the morning of that first day.
‘You know what it’s like to kill a man?’
I’d done a stint in the TA but that was about it. I knew Chris had been in the marines. I thought that’s what he meant.
‘No.’
Chris shifted the rifle to his other hand and looked down the wooded bluff at where Lee was setting up the hide.
‘You want to?’
Paddy Dobson
5th September 2021