Survival
“Stupid, thought Charla.
Stupid, stupid, stupidl She dropped her armload of twigs for their new shelter.Stupid to put the old one so closeto the fire . “What a waste of time,” she complained.
Luke appeared, hauling a thin log that would be one of the main posts. “We’re marooned on a deserted island,” he reminded her. “Time is the one thing we’ve got lots of.”
“Big joke,” she muttered.
He awarded her an encouraging slap on the shoulder. “We were dumb. We’ll know better next time. We won’t put the... lean-to where the wind can blow the fire into it.”
She winced at the memory. By the time they’d returned from looking for Will, there had been nothing left but a pile of ash. Only their raft had been spared the second blaze the cabin top had survived, although it was badly burned. The half name, NIX, was barely visible under the brown scorching.
“Come on,” said Luke. “We need more vines.”
In the jungle, they found Ian snapping branches off a large tree that had fallen over.MoreLess
Stupid, stupid, stupidl She dropped her armload of twigs for their new shelter.Stupid to put the old one so closeto the fire . “What a waste of time,” she complained.
Luke appeared, hauling a thin log that would be one of the main posts. “We’re marooned on a deserted island,” he reminded her. “Time is the one thing we’ve got lots of.”
“Big joke,” she muttered.
He awarded her an encouraging slap on the shoulder. “We were dumb. We’ll know better next time. We won’t put the... lean-to where the wind can blow the fire into it.”
She winced at the memory. By the time they’d returned from looking for Will, there had been nothing left but a pile of ash. Only their raft had been spared the second blaze the cabin top had survived, although it was badly burned. The half name, NIX, was barely visible under the brown scorching.
“Come on,” said Luke. “We need more vines.”
In the jungle, they found Ian snapping branches off a large tree that had fallen over.MoreLess
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