Cave Dwellers by Randall Jonathan

Author:Randall, Jonathan [Randall, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2013-04-03T18:30:00+00:00

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Zaac woke before Ramira the next morning. He stood watching Ramira sleep, a slight smile on her lips. She must be having a nice dream, he thought. He hoped it was about him.

Deciding to pick some vegetables, he got the platter and headed down. He collected cucumbers, tomatoes, a cabbage and some radishes. As he was coming out of the tunnel to this side, he saw Ramira step from the cave glancing around for him. He waved at her. While he finished gathering the supplies, she went down to the water to wash her face and join him.

“Good morning,” he said.

“Good morning.” She smiled. She glanced at the loaded platter. “You’ve been busy.”

“I thought I’d go ahead and gather what we might need for a couple of days. I was just getting ready to dig up some potatoes.”

They got what they would need and washed the vegetables. Returning to the cave they had their breakfast and discussed their plans for the day. Neither of them mentioned the closeness that they shared the night before, but both could tell their relationship had changed.

“I was thinking about working on that pottery oven today,” Zaac said. “If we can rebuild it, I might be able to make a few things. I’m going to need a large bowl to carry the coal— about this big.” Zaac held up his hands showing the size he wanted to make. “I’m not sure how long my pack will hold up if it has to carry coal.”

“Maybe we can make a few other things as well. My grandmother used handmade pottery for a casserole dish. She said you couldn’t use it to cook a single item like a chicken because it would crack the pottery. But if the ingredients in the dish were spread out, the heat would be distributed evenly and the pottery wouldn’t crack.”

“This will be a new experience. I’ve never built a pottery oven before, or any other oven for that matter.”

“Well, we have one thing going for us.”

“What’s that?”

“We have the rocks they used for the previous one. All we have to do is figure out which one goes where.”

“Like putting a puzzle together and already having the pieces, except we’ll be using mud with this puzzle.”

“I guess we’ll need one of the large bowls to mix the mud and a pot for the water. Is there anything else?”

“That should about do it. Do you think it matters which dirt we use?”

“They probably got the dirt from in here. We might be able to tell which kind by the color that’s between the rocks now.”

She filled the water pot and went to the pottery oven, where Zaac was examining the dirt between the rocks. The dirt crumbled in Zaac’s fingers as he rubbed them together. “Doesn’t that look like the dirt near the entrance to the tunnel that leads to the coal?”

“I think it’s mixed with some of the clay. I’ll get the dirt if you want to grab a couple of bowls and get the clay.

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