The Red Sling

Perhaps it was a bad idea to give Terence two things to do.

He has copied the map on Gaius's phone onto the paper.

It's basically just a straight line.

Adelaide to Kroombit Tops as the crow flies.

Terence admires his straight line.

But it needs to have arrows. 

He draws an arrow point, at the Kroombit Tops end of the line.

Bumhole! 

That's not where he should have drawn the arrow. 

He decides to stop doing the map and look at Gaius's notes on the maugean skate.

Especially the pictures.

The maugean skate looks like a wide paper jet with eyes and tail ribbons.

It's pointy nose looks like the head of an arrow.

Terence has an idea.

If he turns his map into a picture of a maugean skate, the arrow will be in the right place after all.

He draws wide paper jet wings on the map route.

And eyes and tail ribbons. The arrow nose is there already.

And sharp blades which you could see if the maugean skate was see-through.

Rookai comes over.

How's it going? Is that our map?

It was, says Terence. But I made it into a maugean skate because of this arrow.

We'll get around it, says Rookai. 

The tinker comes over.

That doesn't look like a map, says the tinker.

It's a skate, says Terence. The map's inside it.

Where are the places we're stopping? asks the tinker.

You and I will mark them in, says Rookai.

I was going to do it, says Terence.

You'd be better occupied finding us some sort of sling, says Rookai. So I can comfortably carry the tinker.

Yay! This was the job Terence wanted to do in the first place.

What to use for a sling?

Gaius will have something.

But Gaius is on the phone to Arthur.

Terence goes into the pantry.

And sees an orange bag made of red plastic netting, with one orange inside.

He wonders if Gaius would like an orange.

Gaius is still talking.

Yes Arthur, but surely ....

Terence takes out the orange, and puts it in a box of potatoes.

Now the red netting orange bag is free to turn into a sling.