---"And, in any-end"...
A Sioux-arrow had caught him low in the right-back;
a young-warrior had slipped behind his fallen tree-
trunk barricade at the edge-of-the-river and let-fly.
Life in the-wild depended on-"Luck" as much as-"acumen"!
He had dropped 2 of the 4-savages with his-Winchester; as
the survivors rode away "whopping"-it-up! They would later
sit around the campfire and tell the-tale making them-"Heroes".
Before they were out-of-sight and their "courageous"-yells had
died-away, the man felt his life draining into the cool-sand.
With an-effort, wincing in abject-pain, he rolled himself, with an
audible-gasp, onto his-side; he-raised his-head high-enough to
see the grand-view above the branches of his now-defunct-fort.
Bluish-mountains capped with brilliant-white greeted his-eyes!
He-smiled at the raw-beauty! There, had been his-"home" for-years!
As a grey-veil obfuscated his pleasant-memory, he-blinked. Before-
him focused an expanse of green-ocean waves with white-crests;
sea-birds rode the-winds and twirled acrobatic-abandon! Beautiful!
He had seen the-elements; embraced-life! Lived! Loved! Died!
He-awoke! Opened his-eyes! The brown-sand came up to meet-him!
A wolf-pack waded the stream. brought forward by the stench-of-death!
---"And, in any-end"...---a satiated-Spirit!...Finally...Redemption-Freedom!
Amen!
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