No Name for the Free by Devin Harbison

Author:Devin Harbison [Harbison, Devin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798629147725
Published: 2020-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

Aedan

It's hard to say how long we have walked, or what is left of us, but our journey to our next destination has taken longer than any other. I try not to count the minutes, hours, days, weeks, when the heat of the sun is endless, but a few have gone by as we have traveled through even more of the snow than we wanted to, until the white on the mountains around us turned to green. And, not long after, it turned yellow. Mountains became dunes. Frozen toes became burning soles, and part of me even wants to feel the snow once again, despite all that happened back near the home of Gorm and Em.

Yemi and I lead on, or lead what we can, but the desert that Yemi could not wait for has killed us more than any obstacle or foe we have faced yet. Mentally, we are exhausted, dead almost, and many of the men have passed on too, including Newt, as our supplies grow fewer and fewer. Our tents and bundles of fabric do nothing here but keep away the cold at night on these bare lands. Most of the horses we had left were some of the first to die, especially when they only consumed more of our dwindling food and drink, but, with their deaths, we have gained some food and worthless hide.

Because of that, we have had to leave much of what we once had. Most of our wood and the loose fabrics, belongings deemed unimportant, and anything else that the few wagons we had left could carry either with what horses we do have or with the help of men strong enough to drag their legs still, through ever shifting sands. Those who can no longer walk, or are ready to give up, know they will be left to die slowly if they do not keep up, when we still have no idea if we will find our destination soon or food and especially drink along the way.

When the horses and their food are not enough, small lizards crawl across the land, and, with the help of the wolves, they are easily caught. Yet, it is only a matter of time before they become more of a burden than a help in this weather, where my skin burns wherever I cannot hide the flesh without sweating to death. Some of us show signs of hallucination, seeing what is not there, like the oasis that we need so desperately, and the toll all of this has taken on us is enough to make any shared words painful. Sadness, anger, all come out, and Yemi is the next to complain, when I would appreciate it if he did not.

"I have so much sand in places it should not be that I'd be better off without clothes at all."

What he says is still filled with enough of a joke that I don't immediately shout something back, but, once I feel the sun shining into my

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