Chapter Nine
But Rex didn’t want to leave his position.
Tina told him to come back with her, but he said, “No mum, it’s exactly like at Gandama. They want you to line up, and if you haven’t waited then they won’t give you whatever it is that you want. They’ll penalise you for not doing as they say, like when we tried to get them to build a water tank.”
Yes, Tina remembered that well. It had been hard enough to get all the people at Dickson’s Creek to put their signature to it, and then the officials did everything they could to say that they hadn’t followed the correct procedures. Of course, Dickson’s Creek still had no tank. “You might have a point there.”
Rex smiled. He had become so much more mature recently.
“But how are we going to go about meeting Jens?”
“I’ll ask him and let h
