Emily and the Shadow King by Clark Graham

Author:Clark Graham [Graham, Clark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

The River and Rest

Emily awoke to find that Groli was still asleep lying next to her. When she sat up she noticed that he had taken off her shoes sometime during the night, without her noticing it. He had rubbed balm on her sore feet. She then noticed that his shoes were off and he had done the same thing to his feet. Emily smiled at that.

She was hungry but there was no use looking for either the bread or the cheese, because they had finished them both off during the night. She saw a berry bush a little ways off so she crawled over there and starting eating. She hoped that they weren't poisonous, but she was so hungry she decided to chance it. The berries melted in her mouth. Some were a little green and bitter, but she just spit those out and moved on to the ripe ones. She turned to notice that Groli had awoken and had followed her example in crawling over to get some berries.

He looked over and said, "Not too many, they will make us sick," then turned back and ignored his own advice. When they had both eaten their fill, they crawled back over to where their packs and shoes were. Groli got out his bedroll and promptly lay down and went back to sleep. Emily curled up in her blanket and did the same.

When she woke up the second time, Groli's bedroll was still there but he was gone. He somehow had managed to get his shoes back on. Emily looked at her red and swollen feet and realized that putting her shoes on was not a possibility.

Groli came back with an armload of wood and some dried reeds. He began making the reeds into a makeshift twine by twisting them together. Taking the newly made twine, he started lashing the wood together. Soon they had a small lean-to shelter. He then pulled out clumps of the tall grass to thatch the roof of his shelter.

Emily was confused as to why he was doing all this. “Are we staying here a long time?” she asked.

“No, just a few days, just long enough for the river to go down low enough for us to cross and for your feet to heal,” he answered.

“Oh, I didn’t know the river was up,” she said.

“It is not, but I see rain clouds in the distance, so it will be. You need time to heal, so I built a shelter to keep us dry, then when the river goes back down, we will cross,” he responded.

Groli then dug out a pit with his axe, lined it with stones and pulled out all of the grass around it. Emily crawled into the shelter just to try it out. It was like having a play house, she thought. Groli then left again without explaining where he was going. When he came back he had an armload of firewood and some meat. After putting some of the firewood in the pit he had dug, he started a fire and cooked the meat.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.