Purple gorilla software10/28/2022 ![]() ![]() Heavenly Father, we send you our friend Run Dutil, a good and true American. As McCaughlin rolled up good-sized rocks to the body and then hefted a capstone in place, Rockson said, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And there are some notes describing the places they stopped."ĭanik agreed, Run Dutil was solemnly carried outside, still in his frozen, stiff sitting position. ![]() "Run Dutil took bearings and direction readings with a sextant. "Direction readings," Rock yelled exhultantly. "We can try to reach Eden now"Įagerly he played the light across its contents. "Do you think someone's been here?" McCaughlin said. There was a pack rat sticking its nose out of the decayed fabric. "His top hat don't look too good." Rona said. "It wasn't like that when I was here two weeks ago," Danik gasped. ![]() Then they were off on their quest for Eden. He drew estimated margin-of-error lines too - dotted lines that were as much as ten miles to one side or the other of their new route. Rockson drew some pencil marks on the maps, using the meager angles and sun-elevation heights that Dutil had jotted down. They all chanted an amen in unison, and then went back and spread out their maps, and compared them to the notes from Run Dutil's little pad. Rockson hoped that any roving scavengers attracted by the body of Run Dutil would not have eaten his notebook as well - some species of high-plains bobcat ate even metal cans They quickly made for the boulderfield Danik had indicated. I left him - and his notebook of our travels - right where he died." Danik's voice trailed off. I was - was too weak, delirious, frightened. He threw up the food and convulsed and died. It gave me the strength to go on, but Run was sickening from a snake bite he got the sixth day out of Eden. Must have been decades old, but we cut them open and ate the stuff. When Run and I broke open the box, we found some canned goods inside. Some other hapless wanderers must have brought it here - we found disintegrating skeletons on the second floor, next to charred wood on a sheet-metal plate. We found a steel box in here, all rusted and jammed closed. "It should be over there - in the shadows - propped up against the wall. ![]()
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