Need To Think, And Wink

It's lights out in the camp site.

You can't make too much noise after that. The other campers are sleeping.

Ray starts the 300 metre trek back to the ute.

Wait for me, Ray, says Katherine. I'm sleeping in the cabin.

I thought you were already asleep in that camp chair, says Ray.

No such luck, says Katherine. Too much going on.

Too right, says Ray. Didn't much like the look of that Woppa.

He was all right, says Katherine. He turned out to be a geneticist. Unni certainly warmed to him.

My worst fears realised, says Ray.

It won't seem so bad in the morning, says Katherine.

The track crunches under their feet, like Rice Bubbles. The Milky Way crunches above in the heavens, like a Crunchie.

Back at Doris's tent...( the tent of Doris ), Keanu and Beau are in their sleeping bags, not sleeping.

They are examining the dead Jacky lizard with their mum's torch.

Doris has puttered off down to the showers. Free at last.

Where are Unni and Woppa?

Best not to ask.

Sweezus and Daz know not to go back to the tent though.

They open another can of Mother's.

It might keep them awake.

Big morning tomorrow, says Sweezus.

Yeah, what's happenin'? says Daz.

Doctor Wallenius, says Sweezus. To be honest, I'm thinking of not turning up.

You crook ? asks Daz. Must be pretty bad if the doc's comin' all the way out here.

No, mate , says Sweezus. I have to show him where I found the funnel web spider.

How hard can that be, says Daz. They're everywhere.

Not this one, says Sweezus, slurping his Mother's. Maybe Unni remembers.

Yeah, says Daz. She's pretty bright that one. Makin' a snake on a 3D printer.

This reminds Sweezus once again of the snake phallus genome, and yeah, it's not that he's jealous....

Stupid rhyme game? says Sweezus.

Okay, says Daz.

D: need to think
S: and wink
D: it's not kink
S: to ride the countryside
D: it's very wide
S: but don't take a plane
D: TAKE A TRAIN

You guys! says Doris, who has just returned from the showers in a nightie. She goes into the tent.

Put that torch out! Get rid of that lizard NOW, boys!

Sweezus and Daz stretch out on the grass, eyes wide open, focused on the Crunchie.

The Crunchie revolves in the heavens, spitting like foam.