Sunday, August 8, 2010

The medicine man...

The news spread like wildfire through the town, the medicine man had died. People filed out of their houses in shock. The news came as a surprise to all and as they walked slowly to the medicine man's house at the end of town near the river, a strange silence came over everything. It was like a cold misty veil was laid over the town and the temperature seemed to drop rapidly, much too fast. The townspeople shivered uncontrollably. One by one they moved in one direction and all around them the mist settled. The eerie silence became more pronounced that even the sound of the river was drowned out. The loss was too great to bear. People began crying silently, their tears flowing on their faces unchecked. All his wisdom, all his kindness, all gone. There would be no other.

The medicine man is dead.

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