For a very long time there was a picture in front of my eyes, how a she-wolf looks at Hachiko with a challenge, how he does not take his eyes off his murdered father. The decision he made so hard meant nothing.

A very long time, all the way to the hospital in Lovell, where Luke took me at once; in the emergency room, where they injected me with painkillers and left me to wait for the doctor. 

I was sitting on a bed, on one of a number of others, not fully curtained, allowing me to observe the bustling life of the hospital: urgently hurrying doctors, confused patients and...