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LEAVE JUST GIVE UP on this land and walk aith nothing

Actually walk away She was still thinking about it hours later, well after night had fallen

She couldn’t irants ere headed west She’d heard it was dangerous to jus and feet could be cut off, bodies severed in half by the giant metal wheels And there was cri with their families Elsa was not a brave woman

Still

She loved her husband She’d vowed to love, honor, and obey him Surely “follow him” was understood

Should she have told hio to California? At least talked about it? Maybe in the spring, if they’d had rain and a crop, there would be as

And God kneas unhappy here So was Loreda

Perhaps they could leave—all of theht ended

Why not?

This land would wait for them

She could at least discuss it with him properly, make him see that she was his wife and they were a teah, she would do it She would leave this land she had come to love, the only home she’d ever had

For him

She threw a shawl over her worn lawn nightgown, then stepped into the rubber boots by the front door and went outside

Where was he? Out on the wind on his disappointone to the Silo so he could sit at the bar and drink whiskey?