Ama tried to get comfortable on the floor, but it was no use. Sticks and stones kept digging into her, making it very uncomfortable, and to add to it all she was soaking through and through. But she knew she was not the only one so she dared not to complain even though she was the oldest. And she thought. How did I get dragged into this, I am nearly 30 and I came on a boat with Olo, I should have known better!. She cursed her self and then tried to fall asleep. It still failed even though she was tired, and hungry to add to it. She thought hard to think of food around the Brandywine that they would be able to eat, but to no avail. All she could think of was the poisonous berries and they would be no good, least she wanted to poison Olo for making her come. She scolded herself again, a told herself that she had a mind of her own and he had no part in her decision. He was her cousin after all!
She looked around at the others and all seemed fast asleep. This was good for she felt a sort of responsibility towards them, being the eldest. She looked to Olo who was sound asleep next to her and smiled. He was lucky that the rest of them did not chuck him back into that dreadful river! But she would protect him from the others, after all it was their own choice to come. Slowly Ama fell asleep.
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"...still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message."
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