Prompt Word: Lap Minervie and Chip 47 Edna came out of the kitchen, and started putting food on the table in the dining room. “Come on,” she called from the other room. Gungan and Minervie stood up and headed through the open doorway to the dining room. A serving bowl of rice and goat and other spices that neither could guess at awaited them. Edna came out with a tea kettle, and suggested they all sit....

Prompt Word: Shutter Minervie and Chip 46 Gungan got in the back seat of a pale yellow Holden. It was dirty, but otherwise in pretty good shape. Minervie was in the front with Edna. Gungan tried to pay attention to where they were going, in case he needed to get back to town on foot. Edna and Minervie were catching up in the front, and that kept distracting him from his internal mission....

Prompt Word: Turn Minervie and Chip 45 As Minervie and Gungan were discussing the evening arrangements on the Birburrum train platform, someone called out, “Minnie! You’re here!” Minervie turned, “Edna! This is Gungan.” Gungan, on the other hand hadn’t turned at all, he was bracing himself for the stiff smile of a disapproving colonist. He took a deep breath and turned. What he saw was a native faced woman walking towards them....

Prompt Words: Regard / Draw Minervie and Chip 44 Gungan was mostly just staring out the window of Minervie’s private cabin, while Minervie was flipping through the newspaper. “I find it hard to believe how much of the paper is dedicated to horse racing,” Minervie commented. He regarded her nonchalance, and wasn’t sure to be thankful for the change of subject. “Them colonists have been horse racing since before they started trying to kill us all,” then he looked down on the bruises visible across his own arms....