”“Oh, no, Sal, I’ll do that. Where’re the rest of the guys; where’s Kyle?”They’re still over at Davidson’s, they’ll be over soon. Ro...’s there, too. I just wanted to come home and get a head start.”“Nothing wrong with you two, is there?”“Oh, no, mom. We have so much time together, it doesn’t mean anything when I get domestic.” Sally grinned at her mother. “Anyway, we had some time together after school. Kyle came over here.”“Bounced your bones, did he?” Alice said with a grin.Mother!” Sally. "Verla tried to reassure him by saying that they hadn't seen any of her people either and she explained to him that the likelihood that a catastrophe had happened to both villages was highly improbable.But the closer they got to where his family and clan lived, the more he became worried since they still hadn't met anyone yet. They finally reached his village on the tenth days after their escape.The place was a complete ruin. Most of the huts - made of poles with wide leaves on racks overhead. This I would use then for an hour each morning while they were at the college. Being on my own for the rest of the day, I soon got used to making myself coffee and something to eat from the fridge. I would quite often sit out on the balcony to listen to one of the audio books and if the sun was good, strip off naked and just lie there in the sun. I went and over done it one day by falling asleep and got really sunburnt all down the front of my body. Tony, bless him, laid me out on my bed and. I told them that you were no more.”“I was no more and am no more, yet I am here. Sit. I have not finished signalling.”By mid afternoon, two more utes had arrived: the first from Molly Springs was a tawny frogmouth, close kin of the boobook, the other – a short-eared rock wallaby -- from Timber Creek in the Territory. The red kangaroo of the Giju was awaited. He arrived when it was nearly dark.“It took long to cross the Ord bridge,” he said, “The water was high and fast.”“I will explain, now.