Length5h 50m
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Book 3: The Gibber
They crossed the salt at night. They crossed the cicadas at noon. They crossed a crocodile who had kept her water to herself since before anyone’s grandmother, and a cane toad who talked four thousand others into an army with nothing but a ledger and a voice bigger than his body.
At the Waterhold the spring still runs gold in the evenings, and a kangaroo called Red has spent years teaching an entire country how to stand in a queue. Flo has one drone that lists in crosswinds, a crew that should never have worked, and the growing certainty that the system above them is older, deeper, and far less interested in animals than any of them hoped.
Some wars are loud. This one unravels.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE STORY SO FAR
11Chapter 10 — Spike’s Geography
2Chapter 1 — The Outer Territories
12Chapter 11 — The Green Sink
3Chapter 2 — The Waterhold
13Chapter 12 — The Turn
4Chapter 3 — Loading
14Chapter 13 — Return Route
5Chapter 4 — First Contact
15Chapter 14 — The Waterhold War
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6Chapter 5 — The Cicada Wall
16Chapter 15 — The Spring
7Chapter 6 — Night on the Flat
17Chapter 16 — After
8Chapter 7 — Dust
18End of Book 3: The Gibber
9Chapter 8 — The Toad Negotiation
19A LEDGER OF ANIMALS
10Chapter 9 — The Night Raid
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