Chapter Nineteen
PEOPLE ARE PEOPLEKirwan walked ahead with confidence, picking his way along a route familiar to him. He kept the plastic box under his left arm, showing no concern that the sandwiches and cake mingled because of the careless angle. Phoenix used her Du Rose wiliness this time, laying her own hidden tracks as she followed Kirwan. Her deft fingers left an unnoticeable trail of devastation which would have made her father frown in irritation. Picking bushes and trees at waist height, she bent and snapped small twigs and branches as she passed, knowing the die off would create a path of death for her to follow in the future. She doubted anyone else would notice unless they knew what to look for. The traffickers hadn’t sounded like experienced bushmen as they’d crashed around t
