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[thatsnotaknife]

[There's a low, pleased sounding hum over the phone line one morning. Then a chuckle. Australia is obviously amused by something and then he starts to sing:]

Once a jolly swagman camped by the billabong,
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me!

[He

Comments

[the_wee_big_hag]

Oh, you have your ear back now?

[thatsnotaknife]

Yeah! Good as new.

[the_wee_big_hag]

Good to hear that.

How have you been doing after all the chaos last week?

[thatsnotaknife]

Alright, alright! I kept out of it. You, love?

[the_wee_big_hag]

Same here.

[thatsnotaknife]

Good, good... Smart sheila...

[the_wee_big_hag]

I managed to avoid getting a letter luckily.

[thatsnotaknife]

Yeah, all seems a bit weird... Guess it was random, or somethin'.

[the_wee_big_hag]

It seems like it was. Or at least there didn't seem to be a pattern to the people who did get letters.

[thatsnotaknife]

Wonder why they didn't just give 'em to everyone. Better odds that way, that more people would go along with it. More chaos the better, you'd think, from their point of view.

[the_wee_big_hag]

That's a good point. Maybe they wanted an audience for this.