I found myself getting jostled out of my tent and sooner or later, I was in Lieutenant Roberts’ tent. He told to me that I had disobeyed the governor’s  orders and I had left my post. He told me that he had no choice. He told me to get a goods night sleep and first thing at dawn I was getting flogged.

In the morning, me and Goodwin went to the triangle where I was going to get flogged. Just when Goodwin was about to give me a pep talk, Waruwi approached us, she was carrying a kangaroo skin. She gestured us to come towards her and Goodwin stopped me. He asked me if I wasn’t in enough trouble already yet I look in the skin of the kangaroo. Inside he could faintly see the small outline of a puppy.

Goodwin came and looked in as well, his frown slowly melted into a soft smile. Waruwi gave it to us and we took it to Roberts. He said it made no difference and that’s when Goodwin stoped him. He explained how a puppy was way better than training a full grown dog.

He thought about it for a minute and told me that I was lucky and I had to look after this puppy. I nodded and smiled.

 

I sat on the beach with Lara the dog. I was trying to teach it to fetch when I was interrupted by Lieutenant Roberts, he asked me why the dog wasn’t tied up, I knew that I was in serious trouble. I decided to just give up making the dog pick up the stick a kilometre away from us and just tie her up. So I drearily got up and tied the dog back where she was.

Then I went to talk to Goodwin, I knew he could hook me up, but as usual, I was wrong. Goodwin gave me a bunch of reasons why we should not listen to the Governor and listen to Lieutenant Roberts instead. While he was talking though I snuck a dice, a coin and a piece of thread from his pocket, politely said thank you and went to my tent. I stared at the objects for a few minutes and  decided that it wasn’t enough.

Then I finally went to the cook and asked him what to do. He thought I was hungry, I did some quick thinking and told him I had sore feet so I needed the fat. Then the most obvious thing happened, we argued. While we were arguing I stole the fat and threw it behind me. I was hoping it would be enough for Waruwi. The Cook gave me some rations and ordered me to give it to Lieutenant Roberts.

So back to the beach I went, it wasn’t hard finding Lieutenant Roberts and when I did he grabbed it from me and asked me to get his bag for him. I was steamed by what he said as his bag was at his feet, yet I grabbed it for him and he gave me his telescope. Without thinking I stuffed it in my  pocket wanting to give it to Waruwi. Then the Lieutenant said he wanted me to drum him off as they were going to the point. So I drummed them off.

 

Today was one of those days where you would want to tell your parents to let you stop doing work. I would do that except my parents were not here. They were probably back in Europe while I was stuck, here in Australia. Anyways, that day the captain came up to me and asked if I could bring the dog to him. I sighed, sometimes I wish he wasn’t the captain but I knew I had to obey so I agreed. He sent me into the forest with a soldier and I got the shivers.

I had asked the soldier if the dog could have been a pet to a native, but he said that the dogs  probably just lurk around the natives. I knew I shouldn’t have argued to him but I couldn’t help it so I blurted out that what he just said was stupid. After a few more minutes of arguing we decided to spread out. I wanted to find Waruwi the second I got, as Waruwi was an indigenous person and her dog was about to get captured. I found her tree and looked around, finally I saw her but we couldn’t understand each other.

I tried sign language but she thought I was playing with her and mocked me. I saw Lara, her dog and felt a little guilt in my stomach. When I was about to run with the dog the same soldier saw me a shouted in happiness. He tied the dog up and patted me on the back. I turned around and saw Waruwi’s face of confusion and anger.

Back at the camp the captain walked up to me and congratulated me, then I saw something flying out of nowhere. It was a rock at before I could speak up the captain shouted. He thought we were under attack but it was just Waruwi getting revenge. I wanted to tell her that I was sorry but I couldn’t as the captain would here me, so I stayed quiet.