The boys are becoming used to a new rhythm of life: the pleasures of morning, ducking the heat and ignoring the miraculous mirages of midday, and then restlessness in the shelters under darkness. The younger boys suffer terrors at night; all of them are filthy and very brown. They still come when Ralph blows the conch, in part because Ralph blows it, in part because they link him to the adult world, and in part for the entertainment which the assemblies provide. Otherwise, they keep mostly to themselves.
Three of the younger boys are playing on the beach around a sand castle. Roger and Maurice, two of the older boys, come out of the forest toward the water and walk through the littluns' game, kicking sand as they go. Maurice still feels the unease.....
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