Now You See the Sky by Catharine H. Murray
Author:Catharine H. Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2018-10-02T16:00:00+00:00
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The next day when Dtaw drove off with Cody, Tahn, Cam, and Chan in the cab of the pickup truck, relief swept over me. Four whole hours to myself. No worries about getting Chan’s juice, getting Chan’s meds, making sure he had a nap, got enough to eat, got exercise and something to boost his spirits. Time just for me.
I was already pleased because Chan was looking so well. His face and lips were full. He was energetic and hadn’t cried or complained or seemed listless all day. He’d eaten all the food we gave him with so little variation: steamed green leafy vegetables, steamed squash (like a miniature green pumpkin), steamed brown rice, grilled fish, fresh papaya, and four glasses of bitter vegetable and fruit juice. I was glad to be in a place where this (except for the juice) was regular fare that we could enjoy with Dtaw’s mom and uncle, all eating together.
Chan was happy that morning because it was the day that he would finally go to the provincial capital, an hour drive away, to pick out a new bike. The one we’d bought six months before in Bangkok he still refused to ride because he said he’d outgrown it. Cody’s old one, the next size up, he wouldn’t ride because it didn’t have gears. His favorite nurse in Seattle, a young Taiwanese-born American woman at Children’s Hospital, gave him some red-envelope money for a going-away present, so he planned to use that for the new bike. He hadn’t been able to go before because I wanted him to get over the cough and cold that had been bothering him.
He was also happy because the five horses his dad’s friends had traveled to northern Laos to find for him had finally arrived at the village across the river. Tonight they would swim across the river to stay at Dtaw’s uncle’s farm before the journey to the mountains.
Dtaw had gone across the river to visit his friends and the horses after they returned from the north, and was pleased to discover the horses were gentle and well-trained (nobody had ridden them yet, but when Dtaw answered in the affirmative when I asked if he could walk up to them without them biting him, I was relieved). One man said that Mongolian horses were stronger than oxen or cows. He said during the war between the US and Vietnam, he had been a soldier for the Communist side. He had traveled through the high mountains in the roughest conditions with his small horse carrying loads of machine guns, ammunition, and supplies. A family who consented to sell one of their horses to our friends said it was used to pulling a cart carrying ten people over rough roads. And they all (except the colt, of course) had been used for plowing fields planted on steep hillsides.
So that chapter of our adventure would begin the next day. Chan was ecstatic, which delighted me.
The horses crossed the river, smuggled over by cousin Gai’s Laotian team and Dtaw’s friends on the Thai side of the Mekong.
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