Tirzah by Lucille Travis

Author:Lucille Travis [Travis, Lucille]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8361-3546-6
Publisher: MennoMedia
Published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

11

Hidden Danger

Merrie rubbed a small drop of precious oil across her dry, cracked lips. For days the cloud had led them through terrible land barren of all but jagged hills. There was no water anywhere. She had given the last small portion of water to Hanna the night before. This camp was no better than any of the others had been, nothing but dry, hard ground. When would Yahweh bring them to water? With a sigh, she laid their mats on the tent floor.

While she waited for Hanna to return from a visit to a neighboring woman, Merrie sat under the open tent flap that formed a canopy overhead. She reached for her braid and undid it for the night, bending her head to comb the thick dark tresses. Behind her waterfall of hair, she was unaware of the silent figure that stood watching her.

Ram wanted to say something, let the girl know that he had come, but the sight of the long, dark, silky hair that spilled into her lap like a robe kept him staring. He moved slightly, and in an instant she was on her feet.

“I’m sorry—I didn’t mean to startle you,” he stammered. “I found this, and I think it’s yours.”

In his hand was the small carved bracelet. She knew it was hers. With burning cheeks, she took it from him. “I must have lost it the other day. Thank you for bringing it to me.”

Puzzled, she looked at him. “How knew you that it was mine?” Her slip of tongue into the formal speech of her ancestors made her cheeks flush hotter.

“Easy. For one thing, I found it where you had been sitting on the rock. And for another, I figured that the carvings were Egyptian.” He smiled at her, and she smiled back.

“My uncle Paser gave it to me when I first came to live in his house.” She turned the bracelet around, searching for one of the carvings. “There,” she said, pointing to what looked to Ram like a crude stick figure standing at an archway. “That one represents me entering my uncle’s household.”

Ram nodded. “Yes, I see,” he said. “Or I think I do,” he added. She laughed then, and he grinned. “Well, I’d better be off. I only came to return the bracelet to you.” He hadn’t meant to say it that way, but the words leapt out before he could stop them. His feet wouldn’t obey him either. Awkwardly stumbling over a piece of firewood, he backed away from the tent and bolted off into the night.

Ram was glad for the dark that wrapped itself around the camp. All he could think of was the girl and how transformed she was from the last time he had seen her curled up on a rock crying. When she smiled, she was beautiful. She seemed to him like a vision framed in the loveliest hair he had ever seen. What was it that had made her cry? He wished he know.

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