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Alex finally reaches that familiarity with Kelso that he can forget the trailers and equipment and everyone else and focus on the dunes and the mountains beyond them. The eight-year-old in him who spent summer wandering through woods and fields is endlessly fascinated by the sand, rocks and shifting shadows on the dunes. He desperately wants to explore.
Today at least, the rest of the crew doesn’t share his calm or his joy. No one’s been sleeping enough, things keep going wrong with the equipment, and tempers pop and simmer. None of it is helped by the heat, which skyrockets as the morning wears on.
Even Alex starts to feel shitty as he sweats through his costume and his sunblock in record time. By midmorning he’s fighting a headache. The glare of the sun off the sand does not help w
