After eating, she placed the big wooden basin in the middle of the room and made another trip to the kitchen to boil water. A grey moth settled on an oil stain on the wall. Le hui reached out and slapped at it, but the moth took off early and flew behind her. Le Hui shrugged her shoulders and suddenly the back of her neck began to itch. She scratched, but the itch moved to her back, then her armpits. A week's worth of hidden itches came out all at once.