Chapter Five
Turbulence
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Yoseob was again the first person up, waking everyone else in turn so that they could discuss the plans for the day. They ate a breakfast of papayas, everyone smart enough to not complain about having the same thing as last night; at least it was food. Insoo took his ration of the sweet fruit with a smile and had just settled back to eat when a flicker of surprise went over Yoseob's face.
"What's this?" He asked, holding up a long, slender stone with some of the khakhi straps attached to it. "A spear? Did you do this?" He motioned to Yixing, and the other boy nodded quietly and continued to eat, eyes on his food and barely ackowledging anything else. "Huh." Yoseob grunted, studying the rough spearhead before placing it beside him to finish his breakfast. "Can you make more of these?"
Yixing nodded quietly, and Insoo could barely contain the excitement of a possible catch of fish. He lanced again at Yixing and noticed that his hands were red and raw from scraping the spearhead into shape, and he got to his feet to quietly dig through the coats lying with the supplies. Pulling a small white bundle from the pocket of his own coat, he held it out to Yixing with a smile.
The Chinese boy looked at it, confusion written on his face as he waited for an explanation. "Gloves," Insoo said, motioning at Yixing's hands. "To help you make the spearheads." After a brief hesitation, the other took the proffered bundle and unfloded it, revealing soft cotton gloves. He flashed a quick smile at Insoo, along with a mumbled thanks, and Insoo couldn't help but think that the momentary dimple was the cutest thing in the world.
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Jessica stumbled along behind Eli and Yuri, the heels of her boots catching in the sand and nearly throwing her face first into it with every step. She was so tempted to take them off as Yuri and Eli had, but she had never walked barefoot in her life and wasn't yet ready to; the certainty that she would have to take the boots off sooner or later was already scary enough. Her best friend JiEun had given her the boots for Christmas, only a month ago. Jessica felt as if giving them up would
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