"My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land."
It was humid out and they'd been hiking for hours but Laura couldn't seem to hold in her excitement. They had been promised ruins unlike anything ever witnessed by americans before, and although Laura knew that ruins were not uncommon in Peru, she was not willing to give up her search.
"Geese Laur, you think you could have picked a hotter place to go rootin' around for a collection of old bricks?"
Laura looked over to her left to find Matthew Dolans, her best friend and partner, sweating heavily under a large backpack that was filled to it's full capacity with every imaginable item save for the kitchen sink (Which she was sure he had already tried to bring once or twice before). He was a funny looking guy with little in the way of a muscular physique, being infact rather scrawney, bearing an unsightly beard that was more of an after thought than a full-time comittment and a pair of glasses that he'd strategically tied to his head in attempts to keep them from falling off frequently while he was hiking. Laura looked at him with slight annoyance. He had a habbit of poking fun at her enthusiasm for antiquities.
"They aren't a collection of old bricks! Not if I'm right. It will be a city. A large city," She said with indignation.
"Collection, city, same thing" He grunted back as their guides chopped through the wilderness with rusty old machetes.They walked the rest of the way in silence until a little after noontime,when the guides told them they were almost there.
"Just this bend," pointed one of the men. The tension was building. Matthew had even stopped whining about the weather so that he could concentrate on getting a good view of the site in question. This was it. Either they were going to see a magnificent old city that would be the window into a whole new ancient civilization,or they were going to bear witness to a couple of old, insignificant rocks that were in no way different from the thousands of other sites scattered along the hills of Peru. Laura and Matthew looked at each other and turned the corner together. They both gasped in surprise.
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"Geese Laur, you think you could have picked a hotter place to go rootin' around for a collection of old bricks?"
Laura looked over to her left to find Matthew Dolans, her best friend and partner, sweating heavily under a large backpack that was filled to it's full capacity with every imaginable item save for the kitchen sink (Which she was sure he had already tried to bring once or twice before). He was a funny looking guy with little in the way of a muscular physique, being infact rather scrawney, bearing an unsightly beard that was more of an after thought than a full-time comittment and a pair of glasses that he'd strategically tied to his head in attempts to keep them from falling off frequently while he was hiking. Laura looked at him with slight annoyance. He had a habbit of poking fun at her enthusiasm for antiquities.
"They aren't a collection of old bricks! Not if I'm right. It will be a city. A large city," She said with indignation.
"Collection, city, same thing" He grunted back as their guides chopped through the wilderness with rusty old machetes.They walked the rest of the way in silence until a little after noontime,when the guides told them they were almost there.
"Just this bend," pointed one of the men. The tension was building. Matthew had even stopped whining about the weather so that he could concentrate on getting a good view of the site in question. This was it. Either they were going to see a magnificent old city that would be the window into a whole new ancient civilization,or they were going to bear witness to a couple of old, insignificant rocks that were in no way different from the thousands of other sites scattered along the hills of Peru. Laura and Matthew looked at each other and turned the corner together. They both gasped in surprise.
If you would like to know what happens next, please feel free to leave a comment and tell me so. If you would not like to know what happens next.... please feel free to leave a comment and tell me so.