He leapt back over the mound and ran. He didn’t know if they were chasing after him.
He thought he might have seen one leap out of the hole. He ran until he couldn’t run any farther, then collapsed.
They hadn’t come after him. He sat there awhile and caught his breath.
As he got back to his feet, he thought he noticed something on the ground, maybe fifty yards away.
It didn’t look like much, maybe just a big rock, but in a land of nothingness, any little thing seemed unusual.
He walked slowly toward it. The encounter with the lizards had made him very cautious.
It turned out to be an empty sack of sunflower seeds. He wondered if it was the same one Magnet had stolen from Mr. Sir,
although that didn’t seem likely. He turned it inside out and found one seed stuck to the burlap. Lunch.
The sun was almost directly overhead. He figured he could walk for no more than another hour, maybe two, before he had to turn back.
It seemed pointless. He could see there was nothing ahead of him. Nothing but emptiness.
He was hot, tired, hungry, and, most of all, thirsty. Maybe he should just turn around now. Maybe he’d already gone halfway and didn’t know it.
Then, looking around, he saw a pool of water less than a hundred yards away from where he was standing.
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