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There was a technique to the way he killed them- a ritualistic pattern that resembled paganism, as though he had any gods to appease. First went the skin in a quick tear from breast to thigh: a nasty gash that bled more the bigger the animal (birds hardly made a noise, and men screamed); then he took a rib as a prize; and finally, before pushing the corpse into the mud, he painted his face. Cheekbones first, to highlight in wet red his native heritage; then lips, like the thick paint she wore sometimes; and then a design on his forehead that his mother had taught him. Then he ate the rest.