[THE LONESOME STRANGERS BIRTH] PART 6
THE MUSIC FOR THIS PART OF OUR TALE...
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Sampson just sits and looks at Melchizedek, this is the second revelation that he has heard in the same day and he tries to put it all in perspective.
He looks around at everything, the trees and rocks, the water trickling over the rocks in the stream and things fall into perspective for him.
Its always been that way for him and Melchizedek overstands that.
He let’s the young man think.
He sees Samson when he looks up and he also notices the dog as he stands and growls, he sees the smoke on the horizon and Sampson stands and starts to run.
His gait is methodical and the dog falls in beside him.
Melchizedek grabs his bow and his quiver and as he begins to run he puts them on.
His camp is over 4 miles away from where Sampson lives and even though they all are in good shape it takes them about 30 minutes to reach the house.
When they do they come up on a scene from hell. The barn and the house are engulfed in flames and they run down into the yard.
There is nothing that they can do and Melchizedek is not surprised to see how even in the face of all this Sampson does not break.
He stands in the middle of all the chaos and the reflection of the flames dances in his eyes.
A tear runs from the corner of his eye and trickles down his face hanging for a second on the side of his lips before he wipes it away.
There is nothing that he and Melchizedek can do but watch the fire until the consume all that they can, it takes hours before the embers are cool enough for them to enter either of the buildings and by that time they have put together a pretty accurate picture of what happened.
Samson walks behind where the barn stood and he and the dog start to dig in the dirt.
Melchizedek comes over and helps and they soon here the sound of the shovel striking something wood.
They extract it from the earth and it is a long wooden box that when opened contains money and a rifle. There are also other things in the wooden box and one of these things is a black scarf that was given to Sampson by his stepmother and he caresses it a moment before putting it in his pocket.
They sit on the ground in the middle of where the yard used to be and watch the embers of the fire glow in the twilight.
They do not sleep that night and the next morning finds them sifting through the ashes of the barn and they find the remains of his parents and wrap them in a blanket which was hanging on the line in back of the house.
They take them to a hill where a lone oak tree stands and dig two graves and bury the remains.
They perform a burial prayer ,Melchizedek has taught him the ritual already and it goes smoothly.
When they are done Melchizedek walks to him and looks him in his eyes and says one thing.
"Come lets make ready."
They turn and walk away and Men and dog melt into the surrounding forest.
THIS STORY WILL DEFINITELY CONTINUE SO STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT EPISODE...
JERALD HAMZAHFARUQ MURPHY
