After about a month, Sophie found herself to be the more or less official doctor of the island. She wasn’t sure how it happened.

Maybe Nadia had talked about how she had stitched up her back, or maybe James had been secretly encouraging the whole thing. In any case, a few days after the incident with Nadia and Karla, a number of people began to show up at James' house asking for medical help or advice. There were some who had had small accidents by working in the fields or ...