dinner duty

Cramming the last of the biscuit into his mouth, he scanned down to dinner duty--and nearly cussed again.

The service broke up after a final prayer, and those on dinner duty went off to make a belated start on the evening meal, which included bridie samosa, channa neeps, black pudding bhaji and saag crowdie paneer.

The fourteen sasenna who served them regularly traded off dinner duty, some serving, some standing guard, as there were always sasenna standing guard somewhere in the Yard - a few still sleeping, or just waked and ready to go on night watch.