Dust Storm! by Terry Lynn Johnson

Author:Terry Lynn Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Chapter Nine

I scraped the rock against the steel rod and was rewarded with a few sparks that were bright in the darkness.

“That’s it,” Martin said, excited. He glanced behind us.

The coyotes chose that moment to howl and yip again. They sounded like a large pack, and they were closer.

“They’re coming,” Martin said, waving his arms. “Hurry!”

I frantically sparked the steel and flint together. After a few tries, I figured out I needed to hold the flint down with one hand and strike it with the steel at a certain angle. Clack. Clack. Clack. Clack.

A gust of wind blew our tinder around. “We need to protect the fire from the wind,” I said.

As Martin gathered stones to build a small rock wall, I leaned over the tinder and made sparks. Over and over again. Reading about making a fire was much easier than actually doing it. The sparks were coming out. Why weren’t they lighting?

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