02 Expanse: The Nannup Four | Selling snake oil

[laughs] I'm taking you away from him, and l- l- let's go.

Let's go to a safe space."

I can hear the nervousness in Donna's laugh here.

But when you're young, back then, you know, it's just a stupid thing that, that we were all doing.

Do you know what I mean? Like, all of us went on stupid paths, I guess, and did silly things.

So at the time, I guess that was, that was her thing.

I'd never thought in a million years it would lead to where it has now.

Never.

I think all of us know that feeling that Donna carries, the weight of missed opportunities that you can only see in the rear view mirror.

It's the same feeling Diane shared with me right at the end of our chat.

I'm starting to hear it a lot, people learning how to live with the choices they made, everyone wishing they could do something differently, but they can't because they only knew what they knew at the time.

Despite what Donna says, that she just got this overwhelming feeling that Chantelle had got tied up in a cult, I can't tell if what I've heard says cult or just a bit of a dick of a boyfriend.

When I think about a cult, I imagine something that's bigger, more people, ceremonies, and white robes.

Not four people living in a little blue house and an early keyboard warrior with a webpage and a forum.