Beside the Brook of SorrowsChapter 14
Two Bears was tired, cold and hungry. He looked over at Broken Stick and watched as his friend breathed in a painful sounding manner, taking labored shallow breaths, and continually shivering from the fever that wracked his body. For the past three days and nights Stick had been like that, sleeping most of the time, too weak to care for himself at all. Two had been feeding him the broths that he made on the cooking skins from whatever foods they were able to gather. He was concerned that his...