How Much Is Right?

How much is left? asks Celia.

I don't know, says Terence.

I was asking them, says Celia. 

They're no good at jokes, says Terence.

It's not a joke, says Celia. It's a question.

She means, how much is left of the fundraising money, says Sweezus. Answer. Enough to get us back to Adelaide and buy new outfits for Team Condor.

Well done, says Gaius. 

It WAS a joke, says Terence.

It wasn't, says Celia.

It could be, says Terence. Now I've got one! How much is right?

Hey, good one little buddy, says Sweezus. How much is left and how much is right?

A serious moral question, says Celia. Terence, you astound me.

Terence beams. 

It seems to me, says Celia, that you shouldn't be using funds you raised to help an endangered species for personal travel and new outfits.

It's left over, says Sweezus.

But you haven't completed the task, says Celia.

True, says Sweezus. We've still got heaps of Croc thongs. The croc didn't want them.

And we can't take them back, says Gaius.

How about we ask Roderick Coconut? says Humboldt. He might have a use for them.

I refer to the other task, says Celia. The endangered bandy bandies.

Celia is becoming annoying.

After all she is only a parrot.

New outfits, says Arthur. Sounds good.

Yeah, says Sweezus.

Are we having new outfits? asks Humboldt.

I don't know, says Gaius. It depends on Vello. Anyone know if he's back yet from Ferney?

Ages ago, says Sweezus. There's two of him now.

How? asks Terence.

One's a hologram in Ferney, says Sweezus.

Is he pleased with it? asks Humboldt.

Yeah, says Sweezus, but it's not pleased with him.

Ha ha, laughs Gaius. I can imagine! At least it's in France.

It wants to come to Adelaide for the Tour Down Under, says Sweezus. Vello's against it. But it's just as determined as he is.

It would be, says Gaius. 

Alas! thinks Celia. These people are unfit guardians for Terence. They avoid moral questions.

She retires to the plum box, defeated.