Chapter Six The Night Of The Misdirection
For a moment, when he was first aware of anything, with the silence and darkness in his head, West wondered if he had woken at all. The silence was deafening, but it wasn't, his wife was calling to him to wake.
When he opened his eyes nothing had changed with his condition, other then he was inside the back of the carriage, and the ambient temperature was sufficiently warm, that he wasn't shivering despite the fact he was bare from the waist up. Winoma had taken off his top to check out for any further injuries.
"How are you feeling?" The words came from the darkness, unexpected West with an increase in his visual acuity for the adrenaline spike, that he certainly experienced at that moment, but there was no change. "That was some blow your head has taken from Dr. Loveless."
"Where am I?" Even as West spoke the word, memory came back with a rush, though his head ached the same way as before. "Scratch that Winoma." He continued, flexing his legs slightly to see if he could still move them.
"Jim, you need to stop moving around, you have a head concussion for god sake." West looked up at his wife looking on with concern.
"Where are we heading?" He said, focusing on her face.
"Back to the Wanderer Jim for where you will be properly be cared for with your head injury, instead of the hospital for where Dr. Loveless can get back at you like the last time."
His head hurt, a strange throbbing, he reached up his hand to his temple and found the bandage, earlier it was the blood, it would seem Winoma had cleaned it away.
He tries to get to his feet inside the carriage, stomach still churning a little, as he stood up, swaying for a moment. The sun was high up in the sky, barely visible along the low range of hills lying west ward, and it cast long shadows from the few sparse trees that decorated the landscape. It was barren land, and parched-looking, as with his mouth feeling the same way.
"Come on." She said to her husband. "You need to lay down, with Artemus and Susan taking us to the Wanderer."
"If we make it that far, do you really think Dr. Loveless is going to let us get away from him again?" He said giving his hand to his wife to sit down finally.
"In a way your right Jim, he's going to go all out to try and find all of us." As he gives a satisfying gasp of expelled breath to feel some what better.