Exactly My Point

Roo-kai is showing the orange-bellied parrots the flight path.

You follow this blue line, says Roo-kai. And when you get to the end you'll be in Melaleuca.

Not Tasmania? says the first orange-bellied parrot.

Melaleuca is in south west Tasmania, says Roo-kai.

Roo-kai knows everything, says Terence.

Not everything, says Roo-kai. 

Hey! says the second orange-bellied parrot. Why is there nothing in this part?

That is the ocean, says Roo-kai.

Do you mean to say we have to fly over it? asks the first orange-bellied parrot.

If you want to join your fellows, says Roo-kai, Melaleuca is where they will be.

The two orange-bellied parrots look fearfully at the ocean.

Don't look at it! says Roo-kai.

But we have to get used to it, says the first orange-bellied parrot.

This is a gulf, says Roo-kai. Bass Strait, which you must cross, is more treacherous.

You're frightening them, says Camus.

Yes he is, says the second orange-bellied parrot. Do we really have to go?

No, says Camus. You can think for yourselves. Embrace individual moral freedom....

Is this your philosophy? asks Rookai. 

A snippet, says Camus. It means you decide what you think is right.

Yes, says Waca. Like Saint Roley's brother.

What about Saint Roley's brother? asks Camus, who has not heard about Saint Roley's brother.

Roo-kai told me about him, says Waca.

Go on, says Camus. 

No don't, says Roo-kai. It will put them off going.

Tell us, so we can weigh up the facts, say the orange-bellied parrots.

He drowned, says Terence. 

We don't know that, says Roo-kai.

Even Saint Roley knows that, says Terence. He said the Pointing Finger was pointing the wrong way.

First I've heard of it, says Roo-kai. The Pointing Finger must know the right way. We oystercatchers believe Saint Roley's brother is still out there somewhere.

Except for Saint Roley, says Terence. He doesn't.

I guess that's up to him, says Roo-kai.

Exactly my point, says Camus.

The two orange-bellied parrots are silent, thinking about the fate of Saint Roley's brother.

And the point of Camus.