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Amber and Ebony sat together on the wet ground, their backs against a tree. The upturned vehicle lay a few metres away. Bits and pieces of the tourist family’s luggage, thrown from the car when it rolled, lay scattered all around them. They sipped alternately from a bottle of water.
Amber looked expectantly at the road behind them. Now she and Ebony faced an entirely new challenge. The car was wrecked; it was going nowhere. Even if it had ended up on its wheels, the damage was severe. There were not a lot of options available to them, she reckoned. They were stranded in the middle of the Australian outback, hundreds of kilometres from anything remotely resembling civilisation, and she guessed the police had to be less than an hour behind them. Worst case scenario: they were going to p
