“We have to take care of this, Yvonne,” I told her, sighing only a little. Who could fault her indefatigable attitude? “I need you to stay here in the shade. Don’t go anywhere, okay?”
“Okay,” she agreed, trying her best to smile back at me even though I knew she had to be in pain. The sunburn looked worse than usual to me - her skin looked to be quite red, almost like that of a lobster’s. If she got an infection, since skin that had been rubbed raw was essentially an open wound, we had no way to treat her. I had to find something that we could use.
I headed for the hill I had been lying atop the day I had followed Hans and his men back from the ocean. While scrambling up the hill, I had seen something that I thought would be of use, but I wasn’t entirely sure. I climbed up the hill, huff
