Chapter 21 - DreamingThe small band of trackers were up before dawn. They started following Wiram and McFly's camel tracks as soon as the sun was up. Donna was keen to get moving, when they lost the tracks she would often range a hundred metres ahead to pick them up again.
Roo became nervous when she did that and tried to talk to her but the words wouldn't come out right for him. He found that when he was under stress he couldn't speak properly. Roo hadn't thought in words for twenty years and putting pictures and sensations into words in a hurry was difficult.
Riley picked up on his cousin's restlessness. Riley tried to explain why Roo didn't want Donna going so far forward. It was fortunate she did because she heard the vehicles and detected the smoke of their fires in time to race bac
