Canyon War by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer

Author:Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer [Sawyer, Sarah Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RockHaven Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The train whistled loud as it roared toward the depot. It didn’t slow despite the lone passenger waiting on the platform, waving fiercely at it. The train barreled forward. It suddenly jumped off the track and headed straight for the waving figure.

Rebekah screamed when she realized she was that figure.

She jerked up, her breathing coming in labored gasps. A dream. A bad dream. Or was it?

The roar was still coming toward her where she lay on the hard floor of the canyon. The horses bounced against their hobbles, eyes rolling in fright.

Rebekah scrambled to her feet, pushing against the rocks she had bedded down on. Somewhere above the roar, Jimmy shouted, “High ground! Get to high ground!"

She spotted Jimmy scrambling away from the creek and to the horses that he quickly unhobbled.

"Don't just stand there, Doc! Flash flood, get to higher ground!”

A train was indeed barreling toward them, somewhere out of sight. Rebekah ran for her medical bag that she had left close to the horses. Jimmy met her, grabbing the bag and her arm as they bolted up the incline from the creek. The horses galloped away in a mad dash, running as hard as the humans, only faster.

Rebekah glanced behind her to glimpse a powerful river burst out from around the corner of the pinnacle and engulf the creek bed as if it had been merely a drainage ditch. She looked forward, measuring the distance of the ground before them compared to the height of the water. They wouldn't make it.

"Lord, help us,” Jimmy whisper-gasped as the red water hit them from behind.

The incredible rush of limbs, leaves, and brush pushed Rebekah off her feet. She squeezed her eyes shut, waiting to be crushed into the rocks. But she wasn't.

Opening her eyes, she realized Jimmy had hooked his arm round her and was holding on for dear life as the water tried to pull them under. But what was holding him in place against the onslaught and keeping them from being swept away?

Rebekah clung to Jimmy, the only solid thing within her grasp. She kicked in the water, trying to find a solid foothold, but she couldn't. The strong current pulled at her waterlogged boots and sucked them off her feet.

All she could do was hold onto Jimmy and hope he could hold on as the river pulled hard.

It was over in seconds. As quickly as the rush of water filled that portion of the canyon, it began to recede. It still gushed like a river, but Jimmy and Rebekah were high enough to be away from the strongest current pull. But even as the water level dropped, Rebekah couldn’t get her feet on under her. She was still being pulled downward by the current.

"You all right, ma’am?”

Rebekah took a shallow breath. It was hard to breathe with Jimmy’s grip around her, holding her up.

"I'll let you know when my feet are on firm ground again."

"Can you climb up behind me?”

Rebekah twisted her gaze to look beyond Jimmy's shoulder.

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