Chapter TenThe house was a flurry of activity as the inhabitants worked to organise the goods they had gathered and unceremoniously dumped on the living room floor. Sarah and James were still acclimatising to the changes in the small group; though it was clear James’s thoughts remained focused on his absent wife.
Joe was one of four newcomers they had been introduced to in the days following their return. He had apparently lived at the end of the street for years, a retired truck driver, who had settled into a semi-reclusive lifestyle, only communicating with the outside world via his radio. Joe fancied himself a mechanically-minded man and had spent his time playing with the radios that James and Sarah had brought back, fixing one in the house and the other in the ute, one of two vehicle
