'Is he alive?' Felix asked quickly. 'No, he's dead.' Adam stood up and looked at Felix.
'Very, very dead,' he said.
Felix's face was angry. 'The soldiers killed him,' he said.
Adam looked at Felix. 'Well, that's their job. Dinon ran away, so the soldiers shot him. "Alive or dead", the Chief said. But we found him. That's the important thing.'
Felix started down at Alex Dinon's face. 'I wanted to talk to him ... to ask him ...'
'To ask him what?' Adam said.
Felix did not answer. He looked down at the dead body on the road, then he turned away.
'Nothing,' he said. 'It does't matter.'
There was a lot of noise in the road now.