‘There is a problem, Zoffie. Pablo’s dog has been badly treated. He will not know what to do with his freedom. The dog will run through the village and eat all the babies. If you are going to unchain him, you will have to take him to the mountains and let him run wild. In that way he will be truly free.’ ‘But he will die in the mountains without water.’ Now she was looking at me. ‘What is worse? To be chained all day with a bowl of water, or to be free and die of thirst?’
