FIELD NOTE
The fee was never the rifles or the wood or the child. It was the walking.
Pike’s four sick were the price of the crossing. Reeves and Sarah worked them three days with a wound kit and a basin. One child sat up and drank and walked to the stove on her own.
The other died on the second night, and they buried her downstream past the last shelter, on the same path the paper took.
The clerk opened the book and drew one short line.
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INSIDE THIS FIELD NOTE
What the family paid, counted plain. What it was allowed to keep. And the thing Mark understood on the west road that he had not understood at the table...
