Chapter 347: The Bird
The landscape was rather barren, but the girl in the wagon didn't worry too much. She couldn't remember what might have been going on before she got in the wagon, but she didn't feel concerned about that.
She didn't know why, but she was confident that everything would be explained when He arrived. She had no idea who 'He' was, just that she had a sense that He would eventually arrive.
She didn't know who she was, but she couldn't say why, but that hardly felt concerning to her. Like who she was wasn't that important. Occasionally she wondered about that, but was always quickly distracted by something going on around her.
The wagon didn't move, but she never ran out of water to drink that came from a barrel in the corner of the wagon, right by where the driver would sit. Though, a faint part of her insisted that there should be a stream or lake of water around here, despite the fact that there was only rock anywhere she looked.
Still, she couldn't shake a nagging feeling that something wasn't right around her. She didn't know what was causing that feeling, but it kept her from really being comfortable there. Especially when the food that would sometimes appear out of nowhere in the wagon sometimes disappeared before she could eat it when she focused too much on that feeling.
Occasionally she had an urge to climb down from the wagon, but whenever she reached the side, she couldn't bring herself to move past the edge of the wagon. Even if it was to reach her arm past being directly above the wagon.
Sleeping helped her quell the conflicting feelings and desires going on around her. However, that would only last so long, as she couldn't sleep forever. She couldn't say what was causing those feelings, only that she couldn't help but wonder at times if she was losing her mind.
Which came to a head when she saw the bird on the edge of the wagon. It wasn't like the other birds in the area. This bird looked mostly like a falcon, but it's feathers made Elin think of a warm fire, despite her having no idea what a fire was.
She wasn't sure what the bird was doing, but it did feel like the bird was looking directly at her. Like it either wanted something from her, like it was waiting for her to do something, or like it wasn't sure if it wanted to eat her.