9: Always
THEY PREPARED THE WOOD FIRE to boil water in a billy for a brew.
‘I didn’t take you for a tracker,’ Duck said as he struck a flint.
‘I’m not, but you were moaning. Trust me, it didn’t sound like you were having a nightmare.’
Duck grinned.
Barry watched his younger sibling for a moment. It just happened that in this family of six siblings, five brothers and a sister, the two of them kind of partnered up in a way. In their younger years, he was often around when Duck needed stitching, binding or healing. Not that Duck was accident prone, just a case of being too much of a risk-taker.
He and Banjo, the youngest male sibling, would often go away hiking, climbing or cragging. The latter would return unscathed, being surefooted as a mountain goat. But Bernard would return with in
