Brian's Return
“It was not that there was so much wind—certainly not as much as he’d been through before with the tornado—when he was first marooned in the wilderness and not that there was so much rain, although there was a goodly amount of it.
It was the combination of the two.
He had cooked dinner and eaten, boiled water for the next day’s canteen, pulled his packs up in a tree, set up the tent and arranged his sleeping bag and weapons. Then he’d sat by the fire and written to Caleb about the day in one of the books, using tiny writing so he wouldn’t waste the pages.
When he was done he put the book back in a plastic bag and crawled inside the tent to go to bed.
Two things he noted but didn’t pay attention to: One, the mosquitos and flies were not as bad as they’d been. Two, with darkness a heavy cloud layer had come up, causing a closeness in the air.
He had studied the map.
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