Monday, November 24, 2008

Chapter 13 (RBoC)

Once his helper leaves, Henry slowly makes his way to the fire. Even though he wants to hide, Henry's need for food and rest over powers his feeling that he needs to run.
He sees bodies sleeping by the fire and is stopped by a man... who is WILSON. Henry tells Wilson that he got separated from the regiment and was on the right side of the battle and got shot in the head. A corporal named Simpson makes his way over and tells Henry the regiment lost 42 men, but men keep showing up randomly, like Henry. Simpson takes Henry to the fire and tells Henry his head stopped bleeding and it's just going to swell a lot and it will hurt. (Duh.) Henry glances around the fire seeing everyone is exhausted. Wilson comes with the coffee that Henry chugs down and puts a wet handkerchief on his wound. Then Wilson helps Henry up and moves him to a place where he can sleep. Henry gets comfortable but realizes he is sleeping where Wilson was supposed to and asked Wilson where he is going to sleep, and Wilson tells him to shut up and sleep. Henry obeys, and falls asleep.

Response- Simpson was spot on about Henry's wound, and just passes it off as getting shot. How can you make that mistake?! He wasn't shot! That little liar... humph.

Question-
I wonder if anyone is going to notice that he wasn't shot, just hit?

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