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The
big
woman
shrugged
.
Shadow
stripped
to
his
briefs
and
T
-
shirt
.
The
women
propped
the
ladders
against
the
tree
.
One
of
the
ladders
—
it
was
painted
by
hand
,
with
little
flowers
and
leaves
twining
up
the
struts
—
they
pointed
out
to
him
.
He
climbed
the
nine
steps
.
Then
,
at
their
urging
,
he
stepped
onto
a
low
branch
.
The
middle
woman
tipped
out
the
contents
of
the
sack
onto
the
meadow
-
grass
.
It
was
filled
with
a
tangle
of
thin
ropes
,
brown
with
age
and
dirt
,
and
the
woman
began
to
sort
them
out
into
lengths
,
and
to
lay
them
carefully
on
the
ground
beside
Wednesday
’
s
body
They
climbed
their
own
ladders
now
,
and
they
began
to
knot
the
ropes
,
intricate
and
elegant
knots
,
and
they
wrapped
the
ropes
first
about
the
tree
,
and
then
about
Shadow
.
Unembarrassed
,
like
midwives
or
nurses
or
those
who
lay
out
corpses
,
they
removed
his
T
-
shirt
and
briefs
,
then
they
bound
him
,
never
tightly
,
but
firmly
and
finally
.
He
was
amazed
at
how
comfortably
the
ropes
and
the
knots
bore
his
weight
.
The
ropes
went
under
his
arms
,
between
his
legs
,
around
his
waist
,
his
ankles
,
his
chest
,
binding
him
to
the
tree
.
The
final
rope
was
tied
,
loosely
,
about
his
neck
.
It
was
initially
uncomfortable
,
but
his
weight
was
well
distributed
and
none
of
the
ropes
cut
his
flesh
.
His
feet
were
five
feet
above
the
ground
.
The
tree
was
leafless
and
huge
,
its
branches
black
against
the
gray
sky
,
its
bark
a
smooth
silvery
gray
.
They
took
the
ladders
away
.
There
was
a
moment
of
panic
as
he
dropped
a
few
inches
,
as
all
his
weight
was
taken
by
the
ropes
.
He
made
no
sound
.
He
was
entirely
naked
by
that
point
.
The
women
placed
the
body
,
wrapped
in
its
motel
-
sheet
shroud
,
at
the
foot
of
the
tree
,
and
they
left
him
there
.
They
left
him
there
alone
.
Hang
me
,
O
hang
me
,
and
I
’
ll
be
dead
and
gone
,
