There's No Place Like Home - Prompt 2 - What Matters Most

[engarian]

He breathed a deep sigh as the camel passed the final opening in the sheer cliffs surrounding him. Home - finally home again. As he progressed toward the city square, he saw women entering and exiting the opening to the underground cisterns, water jugs on their heads, smaller children clutching at their skirts. Other settlements he had passed

Comments

[baxaphobia]

a lovely story. Smile.

[engarian]

Thank you so much for reading and commenting. I really have to put some time aside today to do the same for others.

- Erulisse (one L)

[roina_arwen]

Very nice, enchantingly told!

[engarian]

Thank you for your very kind words.

- Erulisse (one L)

[beautyofgrey]

Oh, lovely, and what a nice way to stretch your fiction from the future back into the deep past.

[engarian]

I tend to jump all over the place in timeframes for my stories. It's always fun to move back in time to places I've studied or know well.

- Erulisse (one L)

[drippedonpaper]

Petra has always fascinated me.

It's great to think that even in patriarchal societies that may not have married for love, turned out at least some happy couples. I am sure that aspect is true.

I never thought of camels as fierce. I learned something!

Thanks for sharing. Very thought-provoking!

[engarian]

I'm quite sure that many arranged marriages have turned into strong partnerships. Certainly "love" matches like we tend to have in the USA aren't always the best unions over time, are they?

Camels are obnoxious, stinky, and bad-tempered, but they serve a very significant purpose and the deep desert dwellers would have never survived without the camel.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

- Erulisse (one L)

[adoptedwriter]

Awww. Sweet!

[engarian]

Thank you so much!

- Erulisse (one L)