Skin to Skin
By midday the team dripped sweat, more from the heat of the hazy sun beating down than the work, since August hadn’t pushed them hard a’tall. According to the map he’d copied, they should soon be moving in a south-west direction, closer to a river what meandered up towards the old trail. They’d traveled past the north border of his father’s sprawling main ranch hours back and were finally entering into a treed stretch away from overhead sun. “They’ll be needing a