The Uninvited

grow and then we eat the plants,’ hesummarises.‘Yes, Freddy K. Correct.’‘So why don’t we just eat the rabbit?’‘Good idea. Rabbit stew. We can find arecipe.’ That took us on to knives andblood and skinning techniques. We’d lookup how to do it. We’d remove the guts,and inspect them. We might see its heart,and we could compare it to the one in myda Vinci book, which he loved. We’didentify and dissect its liver and itskidneys and its brain too.Back in London, Freddy burst into thekitchen brandishing the plastic bag andgabbled the story of our adventure and ourintentions to Kaitlin. She was in a goodmood. She was glad when we did whatshe called ‘boy things’ together. The