September 7th, 2026
The school headmaster holds a parents' meeting in the Bo-Kaap hall to address the snake incident and asks Daria, by name, to attend as the contractor of record — a title she invented to keep Pieter out and that is now, on a whiteboard in front of sixty parents, the only thing standing between her and Pieter's supervised-removal order.
What happened
The school headmaster holds a parents' meeting in the Bo-Kaap hall to address the snake incident and asks Daria, by name, to attend as the contractor of record — a title she invented to keep Pieter out and that is now, on a whiteboard in front of sixty parents, the only thing standing between her and Pieter's supervised-removal order. Embarrassment: she stands up to clarify the record and her boot slides in the very gore she left on the playground asphalt two mornings ago, which has been dragged into the hall on a child's shoe, and the parents laugh. Crime: Pieter's lawyer emails during the meeting to inform her the Viviers Verwydering contract is dated a full day before hers; danger: the hall has no fire exit behind her and the smear on her boot is recognisably hers.