Let Us Be Brave by Linda Thompson

Author:Linda Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publication Consultants

Chapter 24

Up the Hill

Everyone was excited. They were finally doing something other than sitting around the campfire and waiting. Patrick was the most excited since it was the first time he had been able to look at the country around the shelter. He worked hard at staying rigid to make it easier for his three friends to move him. He was always stiff, but he had the chair to help him relax a bit. With all the movement he found it hard not to fold in half. Every time he didn’t focus on his body, he bent and the boys almost dropped him.

Sam was strong and capable of carrying his share of Patrick’s weight. Nicholi, though he was much larger, was chubby, and his normal lifestyle was one of lying around the house, doing as little as possible. Camping out, the group had discovered that when he took off his shirt, a fat belly hung over his pants. His pants didn’t want to stay on his rear, and they were always falling dangerously low. Carrying Patrick was the hardest thing he had ever done in his long life of fifteen years. He was huffing and puffing within the first 25 yards and they hadn’t even started up the hillside.

Marie had always been a normal-size girl. She weighed only around 120 pounds, but she was on the lazy side. Helen’s being hurt had helped Marie realize all her sister did for her. Ever since the crash she had stayed close by Patrick and Helen or made sure that Lillian was at their side. She worried about leaving Helen alone in the shelter. Leaving the bear spray behind allowed her to worry a little less. She had seen what that stuff did to a bear once before when a bear got too friendly at fish camp. Her auntie had yelled at the bear as it sniffed around their smokehouse, but it hadn’t been intimidated. In the end Auntie had had to spray the bear in the eyes and nose. The animal screamed in pain and ran off blindly, stopping occasionally to rub his eyes with his paws or in the tall summer grass in the tundra around camp. He never returned. Helen will be fine, she thought as she huffed and puffed to the bottom of the trail.

“Let’s stop here so you can rest,” said Patrick.

The three set him down carefully in the beach grass and propped him up against a log. They all looked out at the water and the volcano. The smoke was still coming out, but it was a lighter grey color and the lightning had stopped.

“You know we needed to move anyway, you guys, even if the volcano wasn’t erupting and Nicholi hadn’t found the cabin.”

“W a” (Why)? asked Sam.

“In a couple of days, it’ll be the highest tide of the month because it’ll be a full moon. I remember seeing that it’ll be a 23.2-foot tide that day. Remember the logs that were on the beach the

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