Chapter Thirty
I stand
on the crest of a sand dune and survey the blurred horizon with shielded eyes.
I see Elle’s pink hair glisten in the sunlight on the next dune over. As soon
as dawn had broken, I suggested going out to join the hunt for peoples tuck in
between worlds. Our presence out there might just help Yates to our side.
Elle
had been glad to agree. Being here with her, even for a short amount of time
seems to have mended some of the cracks in our friendship. More and more I see
that I’d been self-centred, dragging her and Yates around the world searching
for my girlfriend. I have to leave it to fate. I’d asked around at dinner on
the quiet the night before. I like how they still call it dinner here despite
the distinct lack of food. Old habits die hard.
After
asking several people in this tight knit community it became clear to me that
Penny wasn’t here either. Elle waves at me and signals she’s going to search
the next dune. It’s a rule to search the deserts in pairs and to always keep
each other in sight. Losing sight of someone in a land where everything looks
the same is just as bad as losing someone in a maze. I wonder how far this
desert went on. Is this world a globe like ours? Did it stop and have an edge
falling away into nothingness? Or did it simply stretch out into infinity? The
idea baffled me and unsettled my rational mind. I know our universe is
infinite, and that logic dictates that it holds secrets and corners that I
can’t possibly fathom with my small human mind, but an infinitely stretching
land hovering between this world and the next? Somehow my belief doesn’t quite
stretch to holding that as the truth.
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