15 Spirit Lightning
Charity's wagon was in the lead, but had come to a complete halt, which in turn halted the wagon driven by her sons that followed. Uriah stood up trying to peer over her wagon to see what was holding them up. When he could not see directly in front of her, he hollered, “What's wrong?”
“Nothing‘s wrong,” she hollered back. “The road forks up ahead and I'm just trying to decide which way to go.”
Charity studied both roads, and then looked toward the sun. The fork to the left, looked more to the north, but she could not see as far down it as she could the other road. She did not know which way to go.
“Oh, Grandpa,” she sighed. “I wish you had come to me last night?”
With a heavy sigh, she yelled, gee-haw, to the team
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The days were getting longer, and the weather was getting warmer. She would have sworn that it had reached nearly seventy degrees, that day. It was getting into mid-March; the milder weather should make it easier on her and the children, or at the least, so she thought. The sandy ground and palmettos alongside the road let her know they were near the water. She began looking for a place for them to make camp.
After several more miles, she finally caught sight of the river; she saw it shimmering through the trees. She pulled the wagon off the road and down toward the river, so they could set up camp in a small clearing, next to a thicket of willows.
When they finished staking out the teams to graze and watered them, there was probably, two good hours of daylight left- Charity told the boys to take their fish traps and go down to the river to see if they could catch some fish for supper. After she fed the baby, she told Martha Jane to watch her and the younger children; she took her musket up river, to see if she could kill a couple of squirrels or rabbits. It was a nice place; they could stay there a day or two and rest up. She knew the children were restless and they were tired of sitting in a wagon all day and not being able to run and
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That she and the children, were fine, and that she was on her way to a place called, Cherokee. And, when the time came for them to be together again, he would find them in Cherokee.
She made gentle love to him, kissed and caressed his sore aching body. He woke to the feel of her naked body pressed unto his, but when he tried to embrace her body, she was no longer there. Was it just a dream? It seemed so real. It felt so real… her words lingered in his thoughts.
When Henry woke the next morning, he jumped right up; the old man could see a big difference in his cellmate. Henry got up with a new mindset as to how he was going serve out the rest of his time. Like the old man said, the better he followed orders and conducted himself, the better off he was going to be. He had to make it through this in order to return to his family whole, not broken and beat down; he needed to be able to properly support his family.
He was physically weakened, from the days of hard work, and no appetite. Henry tore into the slop like a starving hog. He decided he would eat everything they put in front of him, in order to keep up his strength. Charity and the children, would need that