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Elsa Dutton : [internal monologue] Death is everywhere on the prairie. In every form you can imagine and a few your worst nightmare couldn't muster. Death hides in the creek beds, possesses animals, It hides in tall grass, waiting. With every death, our father moved camp a little farther away... as if death was not the result of accidents and disease, but death was its own disease and carelessness was contagious. But of all the perils awaiting us, sickness and snakes, bad horses and bandits, there was one thing above all that sent terror through both man and beast. There was one word so feared it was never spoken and barely whispered... River.
Elsa Dutton : [...] Looking back, there were two journeys. One was filled with danger and death and despair, the other, adventure and wonder. I was on the latter. And I loved it... I didn't know enough to know they would collide. I didn't know enough to know how cruel and uncaring this world can be. The world doesn't care if you die. It won't listen to your screams. If you bleed on the ground, the ground will drink it. It doesn't care that you're cut. I told myself when I meet God it will be the first thing I ask him: why make a world of such wonder then fill it with monsters? Why make flowers and then snakes to hide beneath them? What purpose does the tornado serve? Then it hit me:
Elsa Dutton : [epiphany] He didn't make it for us.
