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Bernado hides in the shrubs as his parents and clan are systematiclly killed by a troop of Nazi soldiers during WW2. He wathches as his clan are dumped into a deep grave hidden in a glade in the forest. Bernaado finds his way to a small town where he is lucky to meet up with an old Gypsy woman who was friends with his parents. Zelda lives in a small tumbledown cottage with a menagerie of animals she has saved from being shot. Zelda is a healer and teaches Bernado to forage for plants and fungi to make her potions. After nearly a year Bernado returns home to find her and her large Irish Wolf Hound dog Pepi killed near her burning house by German soldiers looking for food. Bernado is caught stealin in the vilage and is taken to a large town where he is placed into an orphanage. The ploliceman assures Bernado that the priests and nuns running the orphanage are good people. They are far from this . One priest is a sadistic paedophile, the dother could not care. Bernado is raped three times by this priest. During the cold months many of the children died of the cold in the orphanage. Bernado stabs the priest in the face with a nail and manages to escape from the orphanage. He is now almost sixteen. He fids work in town clearing up bombed building sites. This is lucrative becase he finds many valuable items in these houses. He finds five stray dogs. One is the Image of Pepi the wolf hound. He teaches the dogs to perform tricks. Pepi rides a three wheel bicycle during the show. Bernado is making more money at his shows than he is making at the building sites. He is asked to join a circus which is travelling through Europe. There are amny pretty girls in the circus who take the now eighteen year old bernado under their wing to teach him the facts of sex. Bernado is a willing pupil. He teaces Shandor his large dog and Esmerelda a prety small one to steal from people walking at night after the circus. bernado is making a large amount of money from this ruse. Al comes unstuck when Shando attacks the ringmaster of the circus when he is violently whipping a young horse. Bernado ends up in Hospitalwith a broken arm . He quickly returns to the circus to find all oof his money and jewelry stolen. The ringmaster and circus strongman have the money. Bernado sees one of the gold coins he found when clearing the bricks from the bombed houses. In unusual circumstances Bernado and the ringmasters girl retrieve the money and leave the circus. They travel to Anzio in Italy to escape the cold. A semi ruined building seems to call to them . They purchase the building and restart the casino.

A three year drought has a disastrous effect on South Australian farmers. The Nickols family are to have their farm sold by the bank. Crops and sheep are dying . John and his son travel to Coober Pedy , where their neighbours have found enough opal to pay off their debts. John and Tony hire a drill to drill for opal on a claim next to Bert and Harry. The hopeless attitude prevails while drilling until late in the day the drill brings up some thick good quality opal They drill four more holes around the find and drill up opal in each of the holes. This is a large seam of opal. They head off home and bring an old bulldozer off the farm to dig for the opal. Over the next three weeks they find hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of opal. This is sold. When digging deeper they find a group of four dinosaur eggs which have been turned to opal over millions of years. The opal is top quality black opal worth millions of dollars. The town thieves hear about the find and conspire with a dishonest opal buyer to try to steal the opal and money the farmers have in an old safe. The thieves have another set of keys for this safe. John and Tony have had a premonition as they had seen the crooks watching as they dug the eggs out of the ground. They head off home at night. the thieves only get some almost valueless opal from the safe. The thievs head to Adeladi to rob the opal buyer when he is trying to sell the opal. They manage to rob the house when the buyer and the opal dealer are together. They steal a case filled with four million dollars and the opal eggs. Before leving Adelaide they buy some alcohol to drink on the way back to Coober Pedy. All three men are very intoxicated. About fifty kilometers from Coober Pedy the driver goes to sleep and runs the car up a roadside embankment. One man is tossed out of the car and breaks his neck. The other two are trapped inside with their legs caught under the dashboard. The opal eggs have been tossed around in the cabin of the car. One of htese eggs breaks. There is something hatching from this broken egg. It has been in the egg almost from the start of time. It is extremely hungry. I tis looking for its first feed. Good nightmare material.