Moonlight Downs (2009)
Moonlight Downs
“As it pulled up we were all relieved to see that the driver was not Marsh, but an old timer who chose to remain nameless, and looked like a sun-dried Fidel Castro. He studied us for a time and then asked, ‘Youse’d be the lawyers?’ Charles and I glanced at each other. Had there been a breach of security? It was possible. The station owners were little emperors out here, with tentacles stretching in every direction. Somebody— the charter company, air traffic control—must have tipped Marsh off tha...t the Lands Council was on the way.
Charles replied that yes, we were the lawyers, or he was, and introduced me as ‘Ms Tempest, my associate’. Fidel said nothing, but took a plug of tobacco out of his mouth and put it behind his ear, scratching his skinny arse as he looked me up and down.
I looked him up and down right back, wondering as I did so whether his curiosity was motivated by my gender or my ethnicity. Or by his lively and enquiring mind.MoreLess
Charles replied that yes, we were the lawyers, or he was, and introduced me as ‘Ms Tempest, my associate’. Fidel said nothing, but took a plug of tobacco out of his mouth and put it behind his ear, scratching his skinny arse as he looked me up and down.
I looked him up and down right back, wondering as I did so whether his curiosity was motivated by my gender or my ethnicity. Or by his lively and enquiring mind.MoreLess
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