Chapter 24
‘Here comes another one,’ said Jake, as he helped Matt load Woorawa onto the jeep beside Aquila. The vibration finished almost as soon as it began, a brief wobbly sensation in Matt’s legs. It would have been different inside, where shivering shelves and creaking walls revealed the most minor of tremors. It was always the rigid, the manmade, that bore the brunt of damage when the earth moved. Pity those poor blokes down the mine.
Matt took a deep breath of pure morning. The powder-blue sky was streaked with sunrise streamers of coral cloud. They unfurled southwards, betraying a high wind. Perfect. The hooded eagles, quiet in their carriers, would sail the summer breezes by noon.
‘Good luck,’ said Jake, and waved goodbye.
Matt pulled out onto Binburra Road just as Penny pulled
