Vestige of Legacy by Sara Blackard

Author:Sara Blackard [Blackard, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sara Blackard

Samara breathed in the crisp, early morning air from where she rode Midnight. Samara would be lying if she believed she wasn’t anxious about the trip, but she pushed that aside and determined to enjoy the ride. Even though the forest remained dark with dawn, Samara enjoyed the scenery. They’d packed their saddlebags the night before and left early, before the sun had even crested the ridge. Orlando had explained that they would arrive at the White River Agency sometime tomorrow morning if they made good time today.

So the easy pace Orlando set surprised Samara, though she didn’t complain. She took in the forest that closed her in tightly like a mother swaddling a baby. She supposed some might find the weight of the trees constricting, but to her, the forest tight around her gave her comfort, and always had, now that she thought about it.

Samara remembered flourishing in the wilderness. When her family lived in the Philippines, she’d hated living in Manila, but when they travelled to villages to work with churches, the jungles had called to her. The years she spent on the streets of Philadelphia had been the hardest, with no way to leave the city. Yet, she had found every park she could and would lay beneath the trees and pretend she lay deep within a forest somewhere. Once she’d scraped up enough money playing music on the streets to purchase her beater car, she spent every weekend she could driving into the Poconos and camping under the trees in the tent and sleeping bag she’d purchased at the Goodwill for twenty bucks. She’d been free in those moments, free from the pain and stress of always staying on guard. The trees had swaddled her, given her rest so she could survive the next stretch of time she’d be away.

Samara wondered at that, the possibility that if God was how she had arrived here, it may have been for more reasons than just to escape Harry. He could’ve just as easily dropped her back at the ranch or at the police station in Meeker. Shoot, He could’ve answered all her dreams and beamed her onto the lap of some Scottish highlander living in a castle beside a loch. She wouldn’t have minded the haggis and brogue since it’d come with all those muscles wrapped in a kilt.

Yet God had placed her here, where she’d live within the wilderness that had always brought her such serenity. Where the mountains reached high into the sky as if they held it up along their jagged backs and the wind played a sweet symphony as it blew gently through the meadow and trees. Where the sky painted a glorious picture each evening as the sun finished its trek across the expanse only to slowly reveal the sparkling marvel that graced the dark sky with such opulence. Where the press of people that caused her heart rate to soar and her nerves to fry disappeared to a dog, some sheep, and a man unlike any man she’d ever known.

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