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nearest case.
    â€œJackpot!” he cried, his voice suddenly full of excitement. “Looks like it’s our lucky day. The cargo hold must’ve split open when we first hit.”
    For a moment Robert and Sarah didn’t move.
    â€œI have a bad feeling about this,” she said, staring at the belongings scattered randomly across the dunes. They looked like alien artefacts strewn about the sand.
Where are their owners now?
she wondered. The thought wasn’t a pleasant one.
    â€œCome on,” she said and they started down the dune after Daniel.

5
    â€œHey, what are you doing?” Sarah cried, running down the last few metres of the ridge. “That’s not your stuff!”
    Daniel kneeled over one of the open suitcases, rummaging through the contents. Clothes and books flew out onto the sand. Finally, he extracted a little first-aid kit and stuffed it into his bag.
    â€œI said, what are you doing?” Sarah demanded, standing over him.
    Daniel stood and moved to the next case, a few metres away on the sand.
    â€œWhat does it look like? I’m collecting things that could be useful.”
    â€œIt looks like you’re stealing from people’s cases,” Sarah replied, following him.
    â€œWell if I see the people these things belong to, I’ll be sure to give them right back,” Daniel said as he ripped open the straps on the next case and started tossing out clothes. He looked round at Robert, who was standing over to one side. “Hey, Bobbie! Empty out that bag next to you and see if there’s anything we can use.”
    â€œOkay!”
    Nobody other than Mum called her brother
Bobbie
, but from Daniel he didn’t seem to mind. Sarah looked in amazement as her brother unquestioningly started working through someone else’s suitcase, throwing things out on the sand in the same manner as Daniel. She ran and stood over him.
    â€œStop it, Robert,” she ordered.
    He ignored her, digging deeper into the suitcase.
    â€œStop it!”
    More clothes went flying.
    â€œI said, stop it!”
    She grabbed the case and tried to pull it away from him. Robert pulled back with all his strength, his face suddenly angry as he looked up at her.
    â€œCut it out, Sarah!”
    She let go and Robert fell back onto the ground heavily, the suitcase on top of him.
    â€œMum wouldn’t like this,” Sarah said angrily. “She said she’d watch over us after she died, you know. She can see everything you’re doing.”
    She regretted saying it immediately. Tears welled in her brother’s eyes, but he rubbed them away with his dusty hands and struggled to his feet.
    â€œMum would want us to be safe,” he said defiantly. Reaching into the suitcase, he produced a baseball cap and handed it to her. “You’ll need it for when the sun comes back.”
    Sarah stepped away, the fight draining from her. She sat down on a red suitcase as Robert went to work on a large rucksack. She watched her brother in silence for a while, turning the cap over in her hands.
    â€œHow about these?” Robert called out, holding up a box of aspirin and a blanket.
    â€œGreat!” Daniel shouted back. “And bring over an empty backpack too. We can use it to carry stuff.”
    Sarah watched them working for another moment before coming to a decision. She got up, flipped open the case she’d been sitting on and ran a hand over the neatly folded clothes within – everything packed for a holiday in the sun. She didn’t find too much of interest apart from a bottle of sunscreen. If the clouds ever cleared, they would need it. She took the bottle and closed the case.
    Moving on, Sarah opened the next case and the next, taking only what she thought would be useful. Pretty soon, however, she forgot that they belonged to other people and was ripping them open with as much eagerness as Daniel and her brother.
    After fifteen minutes they had a little