diff --git a/book-1/13.tex b/book-1/13.tex index d849607..ba463ad 100644 --- a/book-1/13.tex +++ b/book-1/13.tex @@ -93,3 +93,48 @@ It was very warm, almost hot, and there was not even the slightest breeze. Andrew let a moment pass for his eyes to adjust to the change in light conditions, then motioned to Katt with a nod that she should keep going. +She motioned to the left, +but went in the opposite direction out of the same movement. +Two steps away from the door an unorganized row of old metal canisters, +rusty and big enough to hold at least twenty liters each. +They were similar to the containers that held the \textit{firewater} +that Katt used to protect the safe place. + +She took two of the containers that were apparently empty and Andrew followed her and did the same. +Katt doubtfully furrowed her brow. + +``Are you sure?'', she asked. + +``What?'' + +``The canisters get pretty heavy when they're full'' +, answered Katt. + +``Doy you think you've recovered enough to be able to do that?'' + +``I guess we'll see'', Andrew answered. +Even though he knew that Katt only meant well, +they bothered him again. +Mostly because she was probably right. +He felt everything but refreshed and as a matter of fact he already felt the weight of the two \textit{empty} canisters. +But of course he was too proud to accept Katt's almost unnoticeable offer and only to only entertain himself with one canister. +Instead he added in an obviously spiteful tone: +``Bull said I need to work if I want to eat.'' + +``He didn't say that you have to overexert yourself'', answered Katt, +but left it at a shrug and turned around. +Andrew was finally smart enough not to continue the senseless discussion, +but to shut up instead. + +In the bright daylight the ruined city made a maybe not friendly, +but at least less creepy impression. +The ruins were the same as they were before, +immense black skeletons that looked like they had never housed anyone. +The left side of the plaza was blocked by piles of rubble that nobody had seemed to put in the effort to move, +and even though Katt had said there were at least one hundred members in the tribe, +most of the buildings seemed to be empty. +Only a hand full of the doors had the grey rags that Katt and her sister used as curtains. +Almost nobody from the tribe was currently able to be seen, +which Andrew wasn't too sad about. +On the other side of the large plaza some kids were playing, +but Andrew went without looking at them closely.