Testament
“There was only one blanket for each of them, and they slept rolled up in the blankets, crowding close to each other, Sarah in the middle. Once Sarah woke, saying, “I’m cold,” and he soothed her back to sleep. Later he himself woke from the explosion, and he sat upright before he registered the muffled roar and saw the faint red and green of the wing lights far off up there and understood that what he’d heard was a sonic boom.
The early songs of the morning birds roused them just before dawn..., and when he went to check on the horses, he found that one had gotten tangled in the rope of another after all, but they hadn’t hurt themselves, and he led them all back to camp, letting them drink from the stream, feeding them each a hatful of oats, then saddling them. There wasn’t time for a fire to cook, he finally decided, and after tending to themselves, washing, urinating, they ate as they rode, more beef jerky, some crackers, a little chocolate.
“We’ll stop somewhere later and cook a complete meal,”MoreLess
The early songs of the morning birds roused them just before dawn..., and when he went to check on the horses, he found that one had gotten tangled in the rope of another after all, but they hadn’t hurt themselves, and he led them all back to camp, letting them drink from the stream, feeding them each a hatful of oats, then saddling them. There wasn’t time for a fire to cook, he finally decided, and after tending to themselves, washing, urinating, they ate as they rode, more beef jerky, some crackers, a little chocolate.
“We’ll stop somewhere later and cook a complete meal,”MoreLess
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