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Chapter Two ‘How do you like your room, Arkie?’ said Ralph as he worked on his motorbike outside the garage. Arkie was Ralph’s pet name for Satina, his eldest daughter. She was born with a head of silvery-white hair—still had it—and at first sight, the hair had made him think of the Arctic, especially snow. But no one else in the family called her by that name. Irena had thought of the name Satina because the baby’s skin was as soft and smooth as satin. But like it or not there were no options as to where the family members slept in their rented house at Loam: it was Irena who’d decided. Ralph and Irena had the main bedroom upstairs while the younger girls shared the room across the landing. Although there was a sunroom downstairs at the front, Satina occupied the room that jutted out to one side at the back of the house. ‘I like it,’ Satina replied. ‘It’s the best room. I can watch Giddy Goat from my window.’ For directly across the road, tethered to a stake near the gorse fence, was a one-horned goat, an oddity; from the middle of its forehead the single horn grew strangely back and twisted. And what added to the goat’s oddness was this: its gender was difficult to tell. From time to time, Clover the farm girl came and moved the goat’s stake to a fresh site, but the grass grew so readily along that stretch of

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