
Drought has bleached the paddocks at Possum Gully, and the lower dam is down to one shallow pool crowded with hoofprints. You play Sybylla Melvyn, who sets a hidden page of writing aside whenever her mother comes into the kitchen. Your father rides to town for flour and comes back without it. Then a post rider brings a letter from Caddagat — your aunt offers months of green country, lessons and company, and the wagon has already started. One condition is underlined: bring everything you have written.
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