The Donger Trail
Glenda Donger grew up in Zurich listening to her father's impossible stories — tales of portals, guardians, and worlds beyond reach. She dismissed them as fantasy and chose medicine instead, building a career that carried her from the jungles of Borneo to the consulting rooms of Hobart. Then one afternoon, mid-appointment, everything her father ever told her turned out to be true. Now a healer in a world without hospitals, a leader in a settlement built from dust, and a daughter still searching for the man whose stories started it all — this is her complete, unfiltered life.
A storyteller's daughter who chose science over fantasy. A doctor who traded Swiss lecture halls for makeshift clinics in Borneo and the borderlands of Peru. A woman who fell in love over emergency protocols and built a quiet life in Tasmania — until the Fox Order came knocking and the line between medicine and espionage dissolved entirely.
Glenda De Bruyn spent decades believing her father's tales of impossible worlds were nothing more than a old man's creative indulgence. She was wrong. On 25 July 2018, she vanished from her Hobart consulting room mid-appointment and stepped into a reality that bore no resemblance to anything Gebhardt Donger had described — no cities, no wildlife, only endless brown dust and crushing silence.
What followed was not a story of rescue but of reinvention. With nothing but field experience and nerve, Glenda helped forge a settlement from barren ground, built medical infrastructure where none existed, and earned her place on the council that would govern a new civilisation. Yet beneath the leadership and the clinical precision, one question has never stopped burning: what happened to the father whose bedtime stories turned out to be a map?
This is the preserved consciousness of Glenda De Bruyn — every breath, every doubt, every unanswered question. From Zurich to Clivilius, nothing has been edited out.
