Chapter 6

• The air smelt extreme. She stared at her feet, they were buried in sand and it cooled her toes. When she tried to move her knees buckled to the force that held her to the ground, her eyes moved upwards from her knees. She raised her gaze to her stomach, then she realized why she had goosebumps biting into her skin. Zipporah was naked and the cold didn’t bother her, in fact, nothing about her strange situation bothered her, but then, her indifference about her situation began to bother her. She shoved at her feet but whoever stripped and planted her on a muddy soil, meant for her not to move.
• Her eyes began to explore what surrounded her imprisonment. As far as her sight could stretch she saw only trees. Even the sky was almost hidden but she could see the moon. It stood full and proud, almost like it commanded a presence unfathomable to her. She stared at it longer than she intended.
• “If you listen closely, you can hear her sing for her children.”