As the front door closed behind Molo and Oona, the last two to leave, Kal looked over at the silver lamia and thought back to what he knew about the r...gular mortal ones. To stand upright her body below her legs had to make a sharp turn upward as though rearing back to strike. This was helped by there being no spine between her tailbone and the start of her backbone on the snake portion of her body. Kal was extremely curious about how this worked since he hadn’t read anything about it in the. She didn’t think he would try anything dangerous in the short amount of time that Dr. Du Bols would need to examine her hand. ‘Yes, Papa, I’ll go into town. Is there anything we need for when I come back?’ Angele asked starting to look around the kitchen just as he had seconds before. Trying to dissuade her, Gethen shook his head fervently. ‘No trouble yourself. Just worry about hand,’ he pleaded, hoping she didn’t interpret his real reasons for wanting her to go into town. Though he was. "I need to talk to you. An hour. Maybe more. After 14:00? I think so. Thanks. I'll explain fully tomorrow."The next day, I ran through the whole notion with my father."That's not really crazy," he said. "You realize that over the past decade, nearly 200 native title claims covering 1.3 million km2 of land — appropriately 18% of the Australian continent — have been approved. Just last year an indigenous group describing itself as the Murrawarri Republic declared independence from Australia,. " Would you be willing to divulge how you met Barry O'Farrell?" Well, it was personal, ma'am." [I really didn't want to get into trouble.]"I hadn't thought it was political, Mr. Hollister. Though Mr. O'Farrell's aboriginal interests are well-known." Well. My dad is the Director of the Australian Museum. I was introduced to Mr. O'Farrell by my mother." Terse. If you're going to be a barrister, you'll have to be more generous with your descriptions." There was a large festivity when my parents.