Chapter 6
BY THE TIME Javes had packed everything, saddled up the camel and caught all the goats and tied them in the harness, it was midafternoon.
He studied his maps. A place he knew, a few valleys down, had a pleasant grove of trees surrounding a well that had once belonged to an abandoned farm. He would sometimes have a break there with Pashtan. The farmhouse had almost fallen to dust, but the well was still there, and last time they visited, it had still contained water.
He gave the rope with the goat harness to Tali and led the camel out of the yard.
The neighbours had swept away a lot of the sand and had already started repairs on their house. The father of the family watched as Javes and Tali and their herd of animals walked out the gate and turned into town.
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