Lost... in the Desert of Dread by Tracey Turner

Author:Tracey Turner [Turner, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781472907493
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

If you decide to keep your backpack on, click here.

If you decide to throw it to the side, click here.

There’s plenty of water for you to drink in the well, though there’s nothing for you to eat. Luckily, you have enough sachets of salt in your backpack to ensure that you don’t get hyponatraemia (see here).

You exist for weeks, sheltering from the sun during the day and exercising at night to keep warm – making sure you don’t stray too far and get lost. You’ve started talking to yourself. At first you’re tempted to try and kill a lizard or a jerboa to eat, but they’re too fast for you. After a while you stop feeling hungry anyway, and you start talking to the lizards instead. They don’t reply.

After several weeks alone in the desert, you start to feel very weak from lack of food. One day you spot a camel train heading for the well. You can hardly believe it – in fact, you assume you’re hallucinating. But it’s real. This is a regular stop for the nomadic people on the camels, on their trading journey to replenish their water supplies. They get a big surprise when they discover you at the well.

The people help tend to your sunburn (you ran out of sun cream a while ago), offer you a small amount of food (too much would be bad for you), and take you with them to safety. You’re safe at last, but you can’t help wondering that things might have been a bit more interesting if you’d set off into the desert instead. Or would it . . .

The end.

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