Escape and Evade

A dark speck in the blistering aridness. The heat radiates from the ground in a shimmering haze as a camel plods, one padded step after another—a rolling, swaying, sea-swept gait. The rider slumps low in the saddle, a red stain marks white robes from right shoulder to waist. Eyes stare blindly through turbaned wraps. Water. Water.

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