Her voice echoed in his head for several days as he tried to focus his attention on an advert for a beer company. He was supposed to be drawing a kangaroo with a six pack of beer in its pouch in place of a joey. After he'd finished drawing the kangaroo, the clients told him they wanted the kangaroo to be wearing a bush hat because that would somehow 'masculinize' the kangaroo and then no one could accuse them of encouraging pregnant mothers to drink beer. As the client's PR representative droned on about kangaroos with hats being more masculine than kangaroos without hats, Charlie Gower heard somebody call his name. Not his white name. His Dreaming name. Djabo. Charlie's eyes widened as they darted around the conference room, but he couldn't see anyone. Djabo. It's time to go walkabout, the Dreamtime voice said. And the voice was right. It was time to go walkabout Without saying a word, Charlie stood up from his chair and began taking off his tie.
