Heat.
Nothing but sand and sun and a heat-bleached sky in every direction. Endless dunes — he'd left even the straggling scrub brush behind long ago.
He'd kill for a drink of water.
If he tuned around, he could find his way back.
He was certain.
Mostly.
He shook sand out of the folds in his head-cloth and moved on, his feet sinking deep into the hot sand. It didn't matter if he could find his way back or not. He didn't know if it was safe or not.
He couldn't go back until he was sure.
And, to be perfectly honest—which, when you're dying of thirst in an unending desert and may never regain civilization, is something you have to be with yourself—he was curious. He had never realized that there was so much beyond the village and the base camp. Not that he'd explored much—he mostly used this place as an antidote to boredom when he was lying in bed at night, waiting for sleep to come. It had started as an experiment, when Sherlock had first explained the concept of a mind pa—
Nope.
Not going there. Probably isn't safe.
Not that he had much left to protect.
Night fell on the desert with the suddenness of a light flicking off, and he crested a dune to see his camp waiting at the bottom.
With a sigh, he crawled into the low tent and flicked the radio on, taking comfort in the soft, rhythmic noises it made. No music, no talk shows, just a quiet, repeating tone.
Bip. Bip. Bip.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Bip. Bip. Bip.
He slept.
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Hey. Sorry for the long delay on posting. I had this bit written on a scrap of notebook paper that got LOST and I was determined to find it and post EXACTLY what I had written... Anyway. We should be getting back on track now.
Also, several of you have commented on Time of Echoes recently, begging for an update. *Sigh* I'm thinking about it. :D I really love it, but series four is not looking like it's going to begin in the way I was envisioning (better, but different) and so what I had planned may not actually work... We'll see. Like I said, though, I'd really like to get my reunion scene to be a mirror of the real one, and that I can't do until I actually SEE the real one. :D
So...we'll see. But keep checking back, and I may be posting more soon. This one (Deafening Silence) definitely will get updated soon.
