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Germany received a quarter of all asylum applications in Europe last year, with France second, followed by Italy and Greece.
Speak to anyone here and they say they have nowhere else to go. A fire has been lit and a communal dinner is cooking. Mohammed sits by the fire and whispers his story. Now 34, he has spent the past six years being pushed out of several countries in Europe after fleeing what he says was political persecution in Sudan. He was detained for months in Hungary, deported more than once, and finally his asylum case was refused in France.
In Britain they know about Sudan because the UK colonised us. I think they would listen to my claim. He was rescued by the French after huge waves hit the boat 20 minutes out to sea. Human rights in focus Immigration and asylum. She hugged Ajay tighter, pressing her cheek to his.
To Tom, her features had always seemed suited to sorrow. Her cheekbones, her eyes, her slender strength, all gave her a particular kind of beauty. A melancholy grace. Her long blonde hair had paled from the long hours under the sun.
The cameraman stooped down beside her, aiming the camera to get a better close up of the tender moment. She poured a trickle into a mason jar and then stirred in a long pour of honey with a spoon. He held up his pinky for them both to see. He patted Ajay on the back. The cameraman backed away quietly into the corner of the cabin, establishing a more panoramic view. Helen stepped in front of him and tapped her finger against the eye of the lens.
They argued. They argued about the rules of the show and what counted as an emergency—what was worth breaking the rules over and what was not. Then they argued about who was trying to argue and who was not. While they argued, Ajay stared at his broken finger, then down at the floor. Finally, exhausted, Helen let Tom have his way. He whittled down two splint sticks out of kindling and she found the cloth bolt and a cord of twine. She ripped off a length of cloth with quiet fury. When they forced the finger back straight, Ajay cried silently, shuddering at the pain.
They sandwiched his finger between the splint sticks, set it tightly against the buddy finger with cloth, and then wrapped it all together. Helen hugged Ajay again. It might not have been perfect, Tom thought, but at least they had fixed it on their own. Back home, they would have rushed Ajay to the hospital, waited an hour, and paid a doctor an arm and a leg to tell them, in Latin, that his son had broken his pinky.
And the doctor would have done the exact same thing, except with gauze and tape and metal. All those families would be watching them, their faces lit up by the flickering light of their TVs, marveling at how far he and his family had come, how self-reliant they now were, after only a few months of simulated frontier living. He pictured the images of himself, replicating endlessly. He approached his wife from behind and laid his hands on her shoulders, feeling the smoothness of the thin fabric of her dress, as he began to lightly massage the knots from her shoulders.
She shrugged away from him. She pulled the steaming copper pot of stew off of the woodstove and set it down hard on the table. Late that night, Tom awoke to find that Helen was not in bed. The room was dark. He drew the warm blanket up around him against the cold. Because the cabin was only one big room, they had set up a curtain to separate it into two private sleeping areas.
Ajay snored gently from beyond the other side of the curtain. When Helen did not return after several minutes, Tom got out of bed. He pulled his jacket over his bare skin and made his way through the cabin, careful not to wake his son.
He smelled the pipe tobacco before he saw her. He peered out the window and watched her taking puffs from the corncob pipe, her blonde hair ghostly white in the light of the low hanging moon. When he joined her on the porch, neither of them spoke. He sank into the rocking chair next to hers, pulling his jacket tighter around him, scrunching his bare toes. She stared out over the meadow. The fog had rolled down from the mountains to settle in the valley, where it drifted through the black stalks of grass.
After taking another puff, she passed him the pipe. He took a few deep, slow inhales of the sweet, aromatic smoke and the embers in the bowl crackled and glowed with each draw of breath. The way they would sit and talk and stare out at the lights of the restless city.
It was their ritual. A thing they did when they were young and their love was simple. They had different ideas on how to help Ajay become the person he wanted to become. But there had been problems with bullying before. Never anything that physical, that they knew of, but there had been bullying at his middle school—spit on his shirt, a stolen favorite hat, fat jokes scrawled across his locker. He liked the boys. On the mountains beyond, the moon lit up the white of the snow and the distant stands of trees cast long black shadows.
The sky was cloudless, the stars bright. Except for the steady flowing of the unseen stream, all was quiet and still. In the morning, after all their chores were done, Tom took his son fishing. They gathered up their fly fishing gear—all Homesteader appropriate—and they set out, following along the shady path of the stream to the river. One cameraman stayed behind at the cabin to watch Helen and the other cameraman followed them along the stream, keeping a respectful distance.
Smoke poured from the chimney. But no one was outside. Tom watched Ajay closely as they passed by, but his son said nothing. When they got to their favorite spot, they cast their fishing lines out into the wide, fast-flowing river, the lines snaking elegantly in the air, as if in slow motion. The day was sunny, the air crisp.
The trout liked to rest in the deeper pools on the other side of the river, lying near the bottom, so they aimed for the far side. The cameraman, wearing converse high tops, stepped carefully out into the river, wading up to his thighs to get a better shot. After standing in the icy river for nearly an hour, Ajay got a bite. Tom helped him reel it in, showing him, once again, how to release tension before pulling it in farther, to better exhaust the fish.
When Ajay pulled it into the shallows, Tom netted the silvery trout, pulled it out by its wriggling tail, and bashed its head against a rock with a wet slap. It was only later in the afternoon, after they had caught and gutted a few more fish that Tom started to ask about what had really happened to the pinky. They were lying next to each other, resting in the shade of a tree, their bare feet drying in the grass, when he said that Ajay could, and should, always feel free to tell his parents anything—anything at all.
Trying a different tactic, Tom asked him how, exactly, he had fallen. Ajay told him he tripped. But when he answered, Tom noticed that Ajay kept glancing toward the camera watching them. The cameraman lowered his camera, shaking his head. The cameraman shook his head as he walked away, muttering something about how the producer was going to flip his shit.
They watched him walk back upstream, stumbling slightly on the rocks. Ajay twirled the fishhook between his fingers. He looped the fishing line around his index finger, until the tip of the finger whitened.
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