Dance with the Devils by Paul Frisby

Author:Paul Frisby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Australian fiction
Publisher: Ashwood Publishing
Published: 2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Angelique Deloraine considered herself a leader in her cause, and indeed had impressed many with the strength of her commitment and the application of her obviously significant intelligence to the saving of the planet. The financial wherewithal of her parents, one a teacher and the other an economist working for a New York environmental think tank, had been a contributing factor to both her success in life and her activism.

She had been in the forefront of the intellectual aspects of environmental protest, and in the frontline of a respectable number of physical protests as well. She was consequently approved of by the people from whom she wished to have approval. Moreover, those to whom it mattered, while considering her a bit overintellectual about the whole thing, accepted that she had been in the right places in the frontline at the right times. She had a name that was internationally recognised among the environmental cognoscenti. Thanks to being arrested in fashionably peaceful ways in various countries in the media spotlight, her face was sometimes publicly recognised, not just remembered on police data bases.

Good schools and a Bachelor of Science from the Université de Montréal had set her up with a basic qualification. Naturally imbued with sporting ability and better than average looks, she had spent her time and more of her parents’ money trying to find herself, working in ski resorts in Europe, climbing mountains in the USA, and as an eco-guide at tourist resorts. While neither of them would have remembered it, she had once worked for Peter Main, well at least with Peter as her General Manager, for the same resort management company in Canada. Their paths had momentarily crossed at the Rocky Peaks Hotel.

At twenty-six years of age she had found herself. She had decided that she had to start to take life seriously and was now studying for a master’s degree in sustainable forestry at the very university where Lyn Main lectured. Neither of them would have remembered each other either. The one ethics lecture of Lyn’s that Angelique had attended had been, for her, embarrassingly basic, while the assignment required of her in relation to the ethical issues in sustainable forestry had been easy enough given her international perspective. It had earned her good marks because you don’t become a significant ecological activist without knowing a great deal about economics, notwithstanding what your father did for a living and the way the financial world operates.

The discomfort of her position at the top of a half-built transmission line tower in northeastern Tasmania, she accepted. She had prepared for it. What she had not anticipated was that the people who were supposed to be helping her maintain her position had, at least temporarily, quit the scene. They had gone to join others at the northern end of the transmission line’s course, where they would be on public land with easy access, in the full glare of publicity, making their cause known. No doubt some of them would get themselves arrested over the next few days.

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