"I brought you some food," he said and put the tray on the table.Good. This is definitely a good sign."I am not hungry," I hissed."I understand how yo... feel." Really?" I beg your pardon but I do not intend to argue with you. For the time being, you must stay here! If you need something, let me know. When the man you just saw heals completely, you can go. No more than a week, I suppose. I will explain everything then." Are you crazy? I can't stay here," I said firmly."Sorry."I thought that I. I’ll put you two in the guest room.’ * * * When the doco team left for Rome, the departure was covered by a Channel 8 news camera crew and some sixty family and friends of the eight team members waved them off. Becky, who’d become very friendly with Roxy, came home for the departure and hugged and kissed his mother and wished her well on her big adventure and when kissing Roxy goodbye whispered, ‘Please try to keep mom away from nasty old lecherous Italian men.’ ‘But you’re okay if she turns. “Yeah why?”“Nothing I just thought now that Claire got out of prison you might spend some time here.”“well we have our own lives to lead.”After that everybody fell silent Robert and Martha left the table.“Does ... does he know that I am an ex con?”“yeah here is his number.Just tell him that I sent you he will set up everything up.”As Claire went to shipping and moving company and I just hung around watching TV to pass time I got a text saying that she arrived at Joe’s.I spent thinking how. They shot a couple of them and dragged them into the creek to poison the drinking water downstream. We got to get those carcasses out before the water is polluted all the way down into town."Dixie knew this was the flash point that the Rocking "R" yahoos were aching to get ignited. She could ignore it but it was not in her genetic makeup to ignore a challenge so direct and so dangerous.The first job on the agenda was to get the creek clear of the biological materials so the water could run free.