She glanced over her shoulder at the stiff folds of shining fabric covering her narrow bed. Why is mother insisting that I be excited about this banq...et? It was sure to be overpopulated with arrogant sons of fat, lesser nobles able to talk only about themselves, perfumed dandies seeking to curry favor with the court, loud, sweaty knights spouting endlessly of battles, and simpering girls eager to latch on to anyone they think might marry them. As daughter of the baron’s senechal, she was not. ? Soon, the new freshmanclass would learn just what life was like at the University. ??????????? Jenniferand her friends got off the PonygirlUniversity bus, and staredat the imposing statues flanking the entrance.?Two stone ponygirl statues, each decked out in full ponygirl garb, wereon either side of the entrance way.? AsJennifer entered the grounds, all over, there were statues of ponygirls.? It was like they were every 10 feet.? Jennifer and the rest of the freshman classwere all surprised. But then two white-knuckle hours in a turboprop Cessna flying across the red arid landscape got me to Halls Creek. Not many passengers, me, two dudes and a blonde; I called her Miss Big-Tits as the top buttons of her blouse were, like that Queen song, under pressure.There at the car hire desk, I had the dawning realisation I was a stranger in a strange land, in the middle of nowhere, closer to Indonesia than Perth, let alone Sydney and Melbourne, with a hundred miles still to go. I had gone so. "Me either" said Jessica. "These two lovebirds spent all weekend together and left me all alone." I'm surprised a gorgeous girl like you doesn't have a boyfriend" Stephanie replied."Vicky got to Michael first, and I haven't seen anyone else lately that impresses me in the male population of this school" Jessica answered."Tell me about it, now that I know Michael is taken, most of the rest of the Computer Science guys are pretty geeky" said Stephanie. "We might have to get Vicky to loan us.