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Halli said we’d be sleeping in a hut.
I had a perfect image of it in my mind. We’d crest some hill, and there it would be, this sweet, simple little wooden structure—a hermit’s hut—where we could sleep for the night. No electricity, just lanterns or candles. Although Halli did say there would be food there. So maybe just cold bread and water.
And even though she hadn’t brought sleeping bags and pads like she had with her at the campsite where I first met her and Red, she did bring something called a sleep sack for each of us, and said that would be enough. Apparently there were mattresses of some kind in the huts, and blankets, and you just sleep in your little sack like a cocoon, and layer the blankets over it.
But when Halli and I met up again in the bedroom of the hut, and she es
