All quiet today on the plain. No sign of conflict by sight or sound. By the end of the day it had been so quiet we had relaxed our vigil, especially when we sighted what we took to be the halfway point of our journey – the well to which Sy had led us – the one whose water was too low to access.
To our relief its water table had risen and we easily refilled our water skins.
Elijah volunteered for the first watch but I had no sooner turned in when he raised the alarm.
Alarm turned to joy when we recognized our intruder was our friend Reuben whom we first knew as a guard in the prison near Jerusalem.
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