It took an hour, two bottles of water and three worrying people before Ruby Bancroft returned to consciousness. Out of the four of them, she was the one in the most horrible condition, with sunburnt skin and an infection growing inside her body.
She took painkillers and after a few minutes, slipped back into slumber.
The rest of the players quenched their thirst and rested. After almost ten bottles of sanitizers and an hour of trying to air out the place, the stench lessened so that it didn’t feel like they were snorting corpses any time they inhaled.
Elham took a nap on the floor after spreading out the disassembled boxes on the grimy ground. She was beyond exhausted, and took the chance they had; this checkpoint, to catch as much shut eye as possible. An hour in the desert was like th
