Desert Dreams
“He held the sleeping woman in front of him, her head resting against his chest. At some point during the ride, he'd realized she was too tired to hold on, so he had stopped and rearranged them.
She'd roused long enough to protest, then fallen back to sleep almost immediately.
Noise and activity assaulted him on all sides. He tried to see through it, to hear through it, to gauge any potential threat. It was how he survived. But this chaos and his own fatigue made it impossible and set him on edg...e.
He pulled back on the reins, stopping his horse just in time to avoid running over a boy who darted in front of him from between two freight wagons overburdened with cotton. The boy never even saw him as he wove his way across the congested street and disappeared into the crowd on the opposite sidewalk.
The girl in his arms moaned, drawing his attention. Her lips were parched by the relentless sun, even though he’d stopped repeatedly along the way, forcing her to drink water in small amounts and applying what was left of the salve he’d made that morning to her cracked skin.MoreLess
She'd roused long enough to protest, then fallen back to sleep almost immediately.
Noise and activity assaulted him on all sides. He tried to see through it, to hear through it, to gauge any potential threat. It was how he survived. But this chaos and his own fatigue made it impossible and set him on edg...e.
He pulled back on the reins, stopping his horse just in time to avoid running over a boy who darted in front of him from between two freight wagons overburdened with cotton. The boy never even saw him as he wove his way across the congested street and disappeared into the crowd on the opposite sidewalk.
The girl in his arms moaned, drawing his attention. Her lips were parched by the relentless sun, even though he’d stopped repeatedly along the way, forcing her to drink water in small amounts and applying what was left of the salve he’d made that morning to her cracked skin.MoreLess
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