BLOOD TIES
A horseman came up along beside them and
saluted. “Sir, we are to make camp and take food until further orders.” The
soldier then trotted up the line, repeating the order he’d just told Samuel to
the rest of the men.
Samuel reined in his horse, as did the private
driving the wagon.
“Samuel,” Emma said.
“What is it, Emma? You look a little worried,
scared even,” he said.
“What about Royal and Henry? Will they be all
right?” she asked.
“We’ll find them and then take our supper. I’ve
got a lot of questions to ask those two men, as I do you, young lady,” he said.
Emma watched Samuel dismount and give
instructions as to where he wanted his tent and belongings set up along the
fence line. The moment she dreaded most fast approached and she shivered at the
thought of how to tell Samuel about a future United States that he could never
imagine.
How does one explain airplanes, walking on the
moon or even trips to Mars? Very carefully and only if the conversation got
that far.
Emma hopped down from the wagon and ran after
Samuel. She wanted to reach him before he got too far into the ranks, but her
progress was slowed by a group of soldiers who milled around what would
soon be their campfire.
Their words of the war reached her ears and
filled her heart with sadness. She heard them talk of being tired of the
fighting and wanting to go back to their homes and loved ones. There were
expressed feelings of dread that so many lives were lost for nothing. These men
seemed to have lost all hope of an end to the bloodshed and death any time
soon.
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