“What if I roll off?” I asked. “Or forget where I am and get up to take a leak and take a two-metre step to the ground.” “Well,” he replied. “We can keep it on the ground, but I thought maybe to avoid any snakes or lizards—” I stared at him, waiting for him to tell me he was joking. He didn’t. “The two-metre fall in the middle of the night is fine.”
