Chapter 3
I turned to my left as George stepped to his right. Gliding past each other, we diced and stirred and grilled. Within a few days we’d begun to anticipate each other’s moves, working together as smoothly as the pistons in the engine room below. After starting off on the wrong foot, I’d never imagined that George and I could develop such a good working relationship so quickly.
“What do you for fun, George? Reckon I might go stir crazy cooped up in my little flat.” There’d been plenty of things to do in my off shift in Sydney but Darwin was more like a big country town than a city.
“Swim most days.”
There were so many amazing beaches in Sydney. I missed the sand between my toes but I hadn’t been game to set foot on a beach up here. “What about the crocodiles? And the stingers?”
