“It is here!” Nicholas said, rolling over and sitting up so abruptly Dougless’s tea splashed out. Dougless knew she could stand the small problems—everyone had idiosyncracies—but it was Gloria that sent her screaming. Kneeling before her, Nicholas pulled her hands away from her face. Surprisingly, she went to sleep immediately, and if she dreamed, she did not remember doing so.
Nor did he sleep. he felt it was needed, rewarding the industrious when he returned with cloth and implements from the cattle trading. Fo almost a decade now little rain had fallen; the earth had baked the water had lowered and become increasingly brackish. Would you like to see it?” Dougless could only nod.
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