And the Rains Blew into the Steppes by Emil West

For months it didn't rain at all. The earth cracked, trees drooped, desiccated plants collapsed on the hot ground. Day after day the remorseless sun beat down, bleaching every molecule of moisture from the parched garden of the steppe. We milked each passing cloud with prayers for rain, tried to read impending precipitation into the behaviour of the birds in the ravine and the old lady sotesayer from the neighbourhood east of Kiev. When the rain finally began, the earth literally exploded with relief as the Crusading legions ground to a halt and our worste fears fell upon us with a swift blow. The sweet smell of the long sought drops of rain carries up to us a boding, an omened sense that all was not well.

 

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