![]() Perhaps the same storm that had kept them on the other side of the mountains since last summer had also remade this river. But it was gone now and they could no longer be sure where that fording spot was. But it looked as though a storm had altered the bank and submerged the patch of island where they used to regroup before attempting the far bank. They had a usual crossing spot that they considered safe, or as safe as a river crossing could be. From their encounters with it elsewhere, they had even considered it a lazy river, the way it turned tightly back and forth through rocks and dirt from the foothills down across the sagebrush plain. They had crossed the river many times since they first arrived in the Wilderness State. ![]() ![]() So different that they had consulted the map again, trying to match the symbols with what was now there and what their memory insisted ought to be there. River 9 moved fast and swelled against its banks, and to the Community it looked like a wholly different river from the one they were familiar with. ![]()
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