Six - 'Are they that good or are we that bad?'
As the sun began to sink faster and lower in the western sky, Paavai hurried home, all her thoughts of spending her time looking around her village forgotten. Her father and she had to reach the tower before the sun set so that they could relieve the day guard who would then go home for the night, leaving them in-charge of the tower. The guard duty was for only one person from a family, and it was usually the men in the family who took turns for the night duty. But Paavai had insisted that she would accompany Sembuli each time and Sembuli too had found it of little account to protest or prevent her. He would find it almost impossible to climb the tall ladder anyway. And they had set up a system from the very first day. As Sembuli could not climb to the top, Paavai would go up and be the lookout while Sembuli would stand guard at the base of the tower. It had worked with no problems so far.