The Imperial Engineer
“To do less is not only dishonorable, but it is to lay up an account against ourselves which will be hard to meet when the day of reckoning shall come...
Wood River Times ~~~ Lulu woke in the depot and for a moment wondered how she'd gotten there. After a few moments' confusion, she remembered. She checked her watch and saw she'd only slept about half an hour. Not enough time for Tony to have gone to the livery stable and rented a rig.
She yawned, and wondered where her energy had gone. This... awful lethargy simply wasn't like her, for all her life she'd had trouble sitting still and doing nothing.
Some of her best thinking had been done while she was knitting, walking, or cleaning.
Yet now she couldn't move. The room was beyond chilly, with the only heat coming from a small, round stove in one corner, well removed from the uncomfortable benches. She shivered, but didn't seem to have the strength to move closer to it.
Out of habit, she reached into her reticule for her journal, but when she'd opened it, her mind went blank.MoreLess
Wood River Times ~~~ Lulu woke in the depot and for a moment wondered how she'd gotten there. After a few moments' confusion, she remembered. She checked her watch and saw she'd only slept about half an hour. Not enough time for Tony to have gone to the livery stable and rented a rig.
She yawned, and wondered where her energy had gone. This... awful lethargy simply wasn't like her, for all her life she'd had trouble sitting still and doing nothing.
Some of her best thinking had been done while she was knitting, walking, or cleaning.
Yet now she couldn't move. The room was beyond chilly, with the only heat coming from a small, round stove in one corner, well removed from the uncomfortable benches. She shivered, but didn't seem to have the strength to move closer to it.
Out of habit, she reached into her reticule for her journal, but when she'd opened it, her mind went blank.MoreLess
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