The Salt Road
“For days, her instinct had been urging her to move eastwards, but she ignored it because not to keep moving south seemed plainly wrong; and so it was that when she passed between the oases at Ougarta and Aguedal she did not even realize it, for by seeking the shadow of the Jebel el-Kabla she took a col that led only into yet another long arm of the bone-dry Hamada du Guir by mistake. The terrain through which she travelled alternated between crumbling towers of red rock and areas in which a str...ange dark patina lay plastered against the ground, a brittle glaze that shone dully in the sun and cracked beneath the pressure of the camel’s wide pads. Not a plant grew here, not even the hardiest cactus or euphorbia, and the camel bellowed his displeasure whenever they stopped, twisting his head tortuously to try to steal the ever-diminishing bundle of fodder strapped to his back. He was starving, she knew: the usually solid hump was collapsed and soft, its fat reserves almost gone.‘No, Acacia!’ she told him fiercely.MoreLess
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