We had been walking all day. My feet were throbbing under me and I could feel blisters beginning to form. “Maybe we should take a break,” Elizabeth suggested. She looked even more tired than I did. Sweat was pouring down her face and she winced with every step she could.
I nodded my head when I saw Jonas breathing heavily. It had been hours since we last stopped and it was obvious, we couldn’t go much further. “Let’s rest here. We can make a fire and spend the night resting before getting up early tomorrow,” I suggested, and nobody protested.
It had been two days since we left the city. Hour water supply was beginning to drop dangerously, and our food was starting to attract unwanted attention from insects. We would have to find water and food soon or we wouldn’t be able to recover our
