The Therapy Zone

    Where you can sit back, relax and take and enjoy your favourite alcoholic drink. But Number 2 wasn't really drunk was he, neither was Number 6 for that matter. Carefully drugged to the exact proportions so as not to damage the tissue. But there was a curious thing Number 2 said, and he said it with a sound of conviction in his voice after No.6 suggested that he doesn't approve. "Of the village, to hell with the village!" Well Number 2 would be free to make such a statement as there is no surveillance in the Therapy Zone, which is set in a cave away from the village, but did he really mean it, or was it just the drink talking?. A place where you can be an alcoholic in perfect privacy, just as long as you rejoin the flock in good time.

    So how does Number 2 get hold of this alcohol, a drop now and again, just to keep the nerves steady? Because he claims that he is concerned about the election and what is going to happen to Number 6. It is no wonder that Number 6 had such an easy time in the village, well at least when compared to Number 73 and Roland Walter Dutton he did. This because the majority of Number 2's had his well being at heart, even though there were those who wanted to do further harm to Number 6, they knew where the line was drawn and not to cross it.

    But I was writing about the alcohol aspect. Apparently the man living in the cave, a hermit, a scientist and brewer brews his brew, plays with his chalk as he works on formulae on the blackboard in another part of the cave. This scientist/brewer seems to have all he needs, a still, electricity, water, food. Table and chairs, a blackboard and chalk, a real cave from cave home, or is it all simply a set up for the benefit of Number 6? I cannot think for one moment that anyone would be allowed to live outside the realm of the village as this scientist is allowed to do. After all the next time Number 6 enters that cave it is empty, void of any previous occupation, you will have observed the paved flooring, and not a sandy base as would have been the case in its natural state. This when during ‘Dance of the Dead’ Number 6 drags the body he found washed up on the shore into the cave. The body of course is that of a previous inhabitant of the village, where, how or from whom he obtained the radio which Number 6 took from the dead man's pocket is anyone’s guess.

   Me, I’m off to the Sliver Dollar Saloon.

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