later the queen was informed. there were no more men. an impetuous soldier had killed off, purely by chance, the penultimate primate. when she was certain, squadrons of workers were fanned through the congo detailed to bring back the man's picked bones to be sealed in the archives in amber.
i'm quite sure nobody found them.
assorted shades of blue, blackjack by the poolside, cherishing mémoires, comparing thesaurus definitions, dilly-dallying with him, dreaming of exquisite wonders, observing ordinary persons