The Empire of the North 02 The Noble Prisoner by Brendan Dubois

Author:Brendan Dubois [Dubois, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B008ZRD3JU
Published: 2012-08-17T21:00:00+00:00

Armand walked for three days and nights, curling up and sleeping on the hard ground. He drank from a few trickling streams, his stomach aching, for he was stretching out his meager food supplies as best as he could. On the fourth day he was on a stretch of flat prairie grass when the clouds opened up, drenching him. After an hour of slogging with his clothes and shoes soaked, he came across a dirty gully where he made a shelter by digging into the soft soil. With soggy blankets about him, the rains came down hard, splattering the mud, Armand thought about what it was like back at the labor camp. Tompkins would have a fire burning in the little stove, his feet stretched out, a cup of tea in hand, perhaps leafing through a new selection of books from the dowager Princess aunt….

Maybe he had overreacted. Maybe Jacques wasn’t coming to the camp for him.

The rain fell harder. He tried to push back further into the dirt, but his legs and feet were exposed, cold and sopping wet. Armand shook from the cold, hugged the wet blankets tighter about him, and suffered through the dreary night.

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