TIOA Sns9 eps 49: Abby waited and watched as Theo woke the other boys, stubborn and pushing back. "Get away Theo." "Stop Theo." She looked at the meat and the fire was getting big and went to the limb, the dear leg bone was held by the rope and she pulled it a little higher and added more oil, on the very top she put some of the cherry on for glaze and it fell down and froze some down further and caramelized.
She went back to Runner and looked at the other containers, and saw a few eggs in one. Abby took them carefully only one had broke in all the travel, she laid them down near the fire on a rock and took the vase to the stream and cleaned it out by laying it with the mouth open facing upstream letting the water rush through it.
"Stop Theo!" said Latrell. "Get up mom said so." Latrell moved away under the warm skin and turned to face Theo, he saw his mother standing looking down at him. Latrell moved away from Pallab and scooted up on the tree. "Up mom." he said, she responded. "If I tell Theo to make you wake or move, you better listen; do you understand?" Latrell said "Yes mother." Abby said to Theo, "What are they to do?" Theo stood beside his mother and said. "Get up and wash and get ready."
Latrell got up and kicked Pallab as he did so, Pallab looked at him "What?" Latrell kicked him again and pointed, Pallab turned and looked and his mother was standing with her arms crossed. His eyes got big and he stood fast. "Wash up, and get the skins on the horses..... move." Latrell and Pallab moved down to the stream and washed their faces. "Wash your hair as well." said Abby as she went back towards the fire.
"Theo come near me." Theo moved near to his mother and felt the warmth of the fire. "Have you been taught how to start a fire?" she asked. Theo moved his hands closer for warmth and turned his face to his mother, and a little ashamed. "No mom." She said back. "I will teach you and so much more, but you need to wake early to do that....... do you understand?" Theo still looking said back. "Okay mom."
Abby took an egg in her hand and the canteen out, the fire from the town and the campfire was enough, she poured water around the egg and broke the shell on the rock. She peeled the boiled egg's shell away as Theo watched. When she was done she handed the egg over to Theo. He took it in his hands and looked at it, strange to him. "Eat it." she said and Theo took a small bite, he chewed and it was okay. "Take another bite." he did and got to the yoke, and it was much better and he took the last down eagerly.
After Theo swallowed the egg he said. "That was good." his mother said back. "Did you see how I cracked it and used water to get rid of the shell?" "Yes mother." said Theo back. "Then do the same there is one more for you, and one for all of us, throw the shell in the fire." Abby got up and walked back towards the stream to look over her two older sons, they were being slow. She kicked Latrell in the rear and made his face and hair fall in the water.
He came back up. "Theo you!!...." and saw his mother. "Wash your hair and face and move, or I will dump you both in the stream." Pallab heard and looked over, he saw Latrell and dipped his head deep into the water getting his hair wet. He got back up and stood, the water very cold and wrung his hair out. "Go to the fire and warm yourself...... after you get the skins on the horses you two."
Abby went back and Theo was working slowly on the shells of the eggs, he finished only one when she came back. "Sorry mother." he said and she sat down near him and said. "It is okay, take your time, your brothers have some work to do." Theo handed the egg to his mother and she ate of it slowly, it had been some time and tasted good, she savored it.