“What’s the name of these plants? You see them everywhere out here.” The vibrations from his chest felt soothing to Martin who was leaning up against his man.
“Spinifex, or I suppose more accurately hard spinifex. Awful stuff. About a quarter of Oz is covered in the bloody thing. If you brush against it the tips can break off and stay under your skin.”
Martin shuddered. As his lover and Matt continued to talk, Martin’s mind drifted. They’d had a great time in Sydney once he and Colin had rested. Seems they hadn’t been too far from Oxford Street, the main gay thoroughfare of Sydney. Although neither Colin nor himself were much for crowds, it had felt comfortable somehow being around large numbers of fellow gays.
The various food smells and the sounds of different accents had reminded Mar
