Chapter 50
I lasted through almost two whole days of calm obedience before I pretty much lost the plot. The weather was protesting my enforced idleness almost as much as I was. As I watched the hail bouncing off the sheep, I pondered if I could possibly come up with a way to change the weather so that it only ever rained at night time. Surely there was a way I could convince myself that it would protect Eden? I was so, so bored. Even guard duty would have been more interesting than sitting in a tree watching hail bounce everywhere.
‘Can we go into town today? I want to buy something for Tim,’ I entreated, climbing up to another level of the large scribbly gum that grew sideways on the steep part of the hill paddock. Tim had applied for leave without pay from his job at the bank but wasn’
