At the Edge of Summer (2016)
“Because, when we ended up at Ferme de Brindeau, four months after the war began, I needed someone by my side.
We’d been moving closer to Enété for weeks, I knew that, but when we went into the woods and down the rise to the entrance of the caves, I almost didn’t recognize it as the place I used to know. The ground where I stood with eyes squeezed shut while Clare lost herself inside, it was churned up into mud from boots and hooves. The little spot where I’d spread leaves to sit and draw, horse...s were tied. It looked like any other army camp, any other place for a few thousand men to unshoulder their packs and wring out their socks. It didn’t look like a fairy woods. It didn’t look like the spot I’d once thought ours.
And, on the ground above, where I was used to seeing the backs of the farm buildings, white in the green of the woods, was rubble. Surely this wasn’t the right spot. The constantly gray sky, the shell smoke obscuring the sun, a guy could get turned around. I must only think I was so near to Mille Mots.MoreLess
We’d been moving closer to Enété for weeks, I knew that, but when we went into the woods and down the rise to the entrance of the caves, I almost didn’t recognize it as the place I used to know. The ground where I stood with eyes squeezed shut while Clare lost herself inside, it was churned up into mud from boots and hooves. The little spot where I’d spread leaves to sit and draw, horse...s were tied. It looked like any other army camp, any other place for a few thousand men to unshoulder their packs and wring out their socks. It didn’t look like a fairy woods. It didn’t look like the spot I’d once thought ours.
And, on the ground above, where I was used to seeing the backs of the farm buildings, white in the green of the woods, was rubble. Surely this wasn’t the right spot. The constantly gray sky, the shell smoke obscuring the sun, a guy could get turned around. I must only think I was so near to Mille Mots.MoreLess
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