Syth and Axe (Part 5) : Adventures with Pecos Bill
Read part 1 here: https://parallaxrealms.blogspot.com/2024/04/bunyan-went-down-to-jersey-part-1.html Part 5: Darkness and Blood 1925 - Somewhere in the Mojave Desert Paul stared out across the dunes. Scrub brush as far as the eye could see. Sand, gravel, dirt, and hard rock the locals commonly called “desert pavement,” were the only things to break up the monotony of brown, brown, and more brown. He’d spent precious little time in the desert - up until now, he’d though it just mountains and mountains of sand. But no, it was worse. It was hard-packed dirt, the prickliest plants imaginable, and just miles of … brown. And not the good brown - not the healthy brown of trees and such. No, this was the dry, desiccated, scrubby brown of dead plants. The only redeeming quality was these plants that looked prickly, but weren’t - he’d heard them referred to as “Joshua Trees.” But, they weren’t like any trees he’d ever seen. They were cactus-like, but with these leaf-like...