Orange Blossoms & Mayhem (Fantascapes)
“When their guide paused to ask if we needed help, we sucked it up and assured him we were fine. Ha!
With the ruins of Huinay Huayna looming not far below—its agricultural terraces built on such a precipitous mountainside that they looked like stadium seats in a giant’s superbowl—I was the one who called a time-out. Like a football coach down by a couple of touchdowns in the fourth quarter, I figured it was time to tweak the game plan.
We sat on the ancient stone steps, chins in our hands, looki...ng glum. (Not that Urqu ever looked anything else.) I turned to Darcy. “How’re you doing?”
“I’ve got a few hours left in me. I think.”
“Enough to get to Machu Picchu?”
He lifted his head and stared. “Why?”
“Because I have a feeling you won’t be safe until you pass through the door of the Brit Embassy in Lima.”
The sun spotlighted his bandaged face, his slitted eyes, his swollen lips. “Bossy little Yank, aren’t you?”MoreLess
With the ruins of Huinay Huayna looming not far below—its agricultural terraces built on such a precipitous mountainside that they looked like stadium seats in a giant’s superbowl—I was the one who called a time-out. Like a football coach down by a couple of touchdowns in the fourth quarter, I figured it was time to tweak the game plan.
We sat on the ancient stone steps, chins in our hands, looki...ng glum. (Not that Urqu ever looked anything else.) I turned to Darcy. “How’re you doing?”
“I’ve got a few hours left in me. I think.”
“Enough to get to Machu Picchu?”
He lifted his head and stared. “Why?”
“Because I have a feeling you won’t be safe until you pass through the door of the Brit Embassy in Lima.”
The sun spotlighted his bandaged face, his slitted eyes, his swollen lips. “Bossy little Yank, aren’t you?”MoreLess
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