My body was drying out, and this ache was my... My body was drying out, and this ache was my muscles protesting
the torture of itI knew that I couldn't keep going much longer
I'd turned my back on the east to get the sun off my face for a moment
That's when I'd seen itThe long, flat line of the mesa, unmistakable with the bordering peaks
There it was, so far away in the distant west that it seemed to shimmer above a mirage, floating,
hovering over the desert like a dark cloudEvery step we'd walked had been in the wrong
directionThe last marker was farther to the west than we'd come in all our journeying
“Impossible,” I whispered again
Melanie was frozen in my head, unthinking, blank, trying desperately to
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comprehensionI waited for her, my eyes tracing the undeniably familiar shapes, until the
sudden weight of her acceptance and grief knocked me to my kneesHer silent keen of defeat
echoed in my head and added one more layer to the painMy breathing turned ragged–a
soundless, tearless sobbingThe sun crept up my back; its heat soaked deep into the darkness of
my hair
My shadow was a small circle beneath me when I regained controlPainstakingly, I got back on
my feetTiny sharp rocks were embedded in the skin on my legsI didn't bother to brush these
offI stared at the floating mesa mocking me from the west for a long, hot time
And finally, not really sure
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me who moved and no one elseMelanie was so small in my brain–a tiny capsule of pain
wrapped tightly in on her herselfThere was no help from her
My footsteps were a slowcrunch, crunch across the brittle ground
“He was just a deluded old lunatic, after all,” I murmured to myselfA strange shudder rocked
my chest, and a hoarse coughing ripped its way up my throatThe stream of gravelly coughs
rattled on, but it wasn't until I felt my eyes pricking for tears that couldn't come that I realized I
was laughing
“There was… never… ever… anything out here!” I gasped between spasms of hysteriaI
staggered
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something
I laughed at her nowThe sound was sucked away by the scorching wind
Wait, wait,she thought, trying to pull my attention from the joke of it allou don't think… I
mean, do you think that maybe theytried this?
Her unexpected fear caught me midlaughI choked on the hot air, my chest throbbing from my
fit of morbid hysteriaBy the time I could breathe again, all trace of my black humor was gone
Instinctively, my eyes swept the desert void, looking for some evidence that I was not the first
to waste my
replica gucci g watch life this wayThe plain was impossibly vast, but I couldn't halt my frantic search
for… remainselanie was already comforting herselfHe would never
come out here unprepared like we didHe'd never put Jamie in danger
I'm sure you're right,I told her, wanting to believe it as much as she did'm sure no one else in
the whole universe could be this stupidBesides, he probably never came to lookHe probably
never figured it outI was barely aware of the actionIt meant so little in the face of the
distance aheadAnd even if we were magically transported to the very base of the mesa, what
then? I was absolutely positive there was nothing thereNo one waited at the mesa to save
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