One to one.

Family to family.

They have done what they can.

Now they, too, must move on.

The drought holds the land tightly in its grip and reaches out for all our deaths.

Now the family must depend utterly on their combined strength and the wisdom of the matriarch.

Only she can keep them walking.

Only she can keep them alive.

Keekay grows weaker each day.

And Little Bull concentrates fiercely on keeping up.