A Path To Freedom Rebecca

Chapter 11

RAIN?

I think I'm going mad! All I see is sand, sand, and look over there, more sand! Please, God, change something in this area, please. Hey, look a cactus! My prayer has been answered. I am so going mad; I'm talking to myself. Before long I will be talking to that cactus over there and trying to eat the sand through my nose. I wish the Captain hadn't been such an inconsiderate pig and drank must of our water supply.

"Hey what's that up ahead?" shouted Jonathan.

"What's what?" I asked.

"Well let's go find out," grunted the captain.

"May-maybe we shouldn't, it may be a trap," I cautioned them, stuttering a little.

"Don't be such a wimp, Devin," Jonathan said, leading the way.

Before I could reply they were already heading toward the funny objects. "Hey wait for me!"

The nearer to the strange figures we got, the clearer they became. When I was a few feet away from them, I started to feel stupid that I ran all the away here to see a valley of cacti. The further we wandered into the center of these desert totems, the bigger they grew.

But I saw more than cactuses; I saw skeletons of animals that had trailed trough this valley, and were eaten by a voracious predator. Just thinking about it made me shudder with disgust and fear.

"Hey, guys! Look! Is someone over there?" questioned Jonathan.

"Maybe we shouldn't bother to look, it’s probably just another cactus," I told them.

"It wouldn't hurt to go and investigate," said Diana.

"That's what you think," I mumbled, not happy at all about the very sharp pain in my right leg caused from running over here to see nothing but a bunch of cacti. Nobody heard me since they were already running towards what I thought was another cactus. "Hey! Wait up for me!" Again I was trailing behind them.

This heat is really getting to us, I know for a fact that there are no towns or people within a one hundred-mile radius besides us. This has to be a mirage. Just has to. The thought of it being real scared me for some reason. The last time we encountered someone we didn't know, we got thrown into that dungeon’s prison cell. So now I'm very cautious around things, expecting someone or something to jump out at us.

"I swear I saw someone," replied Jonathan.

"Sure you did," said Diana in a bossy way.

"It was probably a mirage like I thought before," I told them.

"Maybe you’re right," grunted Jonathan.

"We better find food or we won't last any longer," Captain T.J. said.

"We should think about what we are going to do... Hey, look over there, is that a cliff?" Diana asked.

I took a few steps forward. "It is a cliff. We might find food and shelter," I told them excitedly.

"No, you think," Diana said annoyed.

Suddenly I felt something wet fall on my face and roll down my left cheek. Before I could say another word It started to rain a little, then pour. It was raining!!! It was actually raining here in the desert!

Soon me and Jonathan were dancing around chanting, "It's raining it's pouring, the Captain is snoring..." then the Captain joined in, " went to bed with a bump on his head..." and Diana just stood there looking at all of us as though we had all gone nuts.

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