Follow the River (2012)
“They were the only colorful things she had seen for two days in the grim and shadowy valley. The colorful toes glowed through her lassitude and held her attention.
They were gray-blue with bruises and there was bright red blood oozing out around her toenails.
Ghetel’s feet were the same.
Now that they had entered this valley, the luxury of walking through the level, grassy, leaf-strewn O-y-o bottomlands was a memory. Here every mile they walked was a gauntlet designed to bruise and abrade their... heels and ankles and cut their soles and stave their toe-bones. The bottomlands and creekbeds were littered with boulders and splintered logs, jumbled stones and pebbles, the rock debris and forest trash that had been sliding down the mountainsides since Creation.
They had not eaten anything for four days except a handful of acorns they had found under an oak at the top of a bluff they had climbed to shortcut a bend in the river.
They had made several such shortcuts. Perhaps they had saved themselves as much as five miles altogether, but in their weakened condition it seemed that they had added five vertical miles.MoreLess
They were gray-blue with bruises and there was bright red blood oozing out around her toenails.
Ghetel’s feet were the same.
Now that they had entered this valley, the luxury of walking through the level, grassy, leaf-strewn O-y-o bottomlands was a memory. Here every mile they walked was a gauntlet designed to bruise and abrade their... heels and ankles and cut their soles and stave their toe-bones. The bottomlands and creekbeds were littered with boulders and splintered logs, jumbled stones and pebbles, the rock debris and forest trash that had been sliding down the mountainsides since Creation.
They had not eaten anything for four days except a handful of acorns they had found under an oak at the top of a bluff they had climbed to shortcut a bend in the river.
They had made several such shortcuts. Perhaps they had saved themselves as much as five miles altogether, but in their weakened condition it seemed that they had added five vertical miles.MoreLess
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