Chapter 102 DARK VOICES

I woke up with a headache and a back pain. I scratched away wild weeds from my face and tried to stand up. Everywhere was as dark as the inside of a tunnel at night.

The pain in my back grew worse as I tried to get up, and I fell back to the ground and grimaced.

The sound of crickets cried all around me, and then one nasty one was at the right-hand side of my right ear, croaking like a frog.

I looked toward the east, and I could see that it wasn’t completely dark. The sun had not gone to sleep for a long time.

I looked around me, seeing nothing but rocks edges looking strangely back at me. I felt the bag still on my back and noticed that I was part of the weight making my back to ache.

I stretched my hand and found the zipper by the side. I pulled it gently downward, and then I pulled a torchlight from inside the bag.

I turned it on and saw that the strange figures of the rocks weren’t so strange after all. I saw the root of a plant hanging freely from the side of a rock and I held i