August 2nd, 2026
On August 2nd she pulls into Oom Hannes's Bellville cool-room yard at six with the boomslang bag still on the seat beside her.
What happened
On August 2nd she pulls into Oom Hannes's Bellville cool-room yard at six with the boomslang bag still on the seat beside her. Oom Hannes weighs the bag on his butcher's hook, writes 2.3 kilograms on the slat in pencil, and slides her a mug of rooibos without looking at the hand. He opens the drawer next to hers and shows her the gravid Parabuthus female, thirty-two grams, paperwork under Pieter Viviers's name, shipping under his cut. Oom Hannes says she will tell Pieter before Tobela loads on Wednesday. She says she will. She drives Jan's Hilux home with the empty mug on the seat, hand throbbing under the bandage, the bigger Hendrik Marais order now officially open.