He’s not long in watching her rifle before he turns back down to it, but his focus is displaced. Enough so that he folds the cover over and presses it flat after another moment or two spent over the same pair of pages. He has his satchel nearby to file it into.
Keeping low enough not to break the brush line requires effort; he shifts onto the pivot of one knee to scoot himself over through the beachgrass, stains and clinging seeds be damned. The view here, he can see now, isn’t any more exhilarating than his own was four or five feet yonder.
“How goes your watch?”
Far above, a hawk wheels in lazy circles over the cove, keeping a weather eye where he hasn’t bothered.
me reading it 5 times and assuming sebring must be some thedas town ive never heard of
Why should he, it’s chaos.
He’s not long in watching her rifle before he turns back down to it, but his focus is displaced. Enough so that he folds the cover over and presses it flat after another moment or two spent over the same pair of pages. He has his satchel nearby to file it into.
Keeping low enough not to break the brush line requires effort; he shifts onto the pivot of one knee to scoot himself over through the beachgrass, stains and clinging seeds be damned. The view here, he can see now, isn’t any more exhilarating than his own was four or five feet yonder.
“How goes your watch?”
Far above, a hawk wheels in lazy circles over the cove, keeping a weather eye where he hasn’t bothered.