Exit Zen
# Morning 1 string ID 4554
English
It wasn't the red morning sun, now risen just above the horizon, that had woken you.
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# Morning 2 string ID 4558
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Nor was it the gentle slumbering breath of Joseph against your neck, doing its best to lull you back to sleep.
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# Morning 3 string ID 4562
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What woke you wasn't even the familiar crick at the base of your tail from sleeping on the bedroll, a stiffness you couldn't wait to stretch out.
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# Morning 4 string ID 4566
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It was your thoughts. All the thoughts in your mind, like so many wild horses running, of what may come next.
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# Morning 5 string ID 4570
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What you both had to do.
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# Morning 6 string ID 4574
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The nights spent on a lookout were better than the sleepless nights back at camp, but you still dreaded the dawn that came after.
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# Morning 7 string ID 4578
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At least you had Joseph this time.
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# Morning 8 string ID 4582
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At least you had him for what was to come, you hoped.
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# Morning 9 string ID 4586
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You could feel one big wing of his, wrapped around your stomach, shifting as he started to wake too now.
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# Morning 10 string ID 4590
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As much as you wanted to keep lying here with him for just a few more minutes, you knew you had to get up.
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# Morning 11 string ID 4594
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Coffee wouldn't brew itself.
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# Morning 12 string ID 4598
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You peeled back the blanket as little as you could to let yourself escape, gingerly untucking Joseph's fingers from your side.
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# Morning 13 string ID 4602
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Sliding off the bedroll and through the dirt, you let Joseph's arm down gently.
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# Morning 14 string ID 4606
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Crouching low on your knees you gave his hand a gentle squeeze. Feeling the soft, dry, dusty feathers beneath your fingertips.
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# Morning 15 string ID 4610
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Holding this moment in your head, that it might stay there.
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# Morning 16 string ID 4614
English
You stood up, dusting yourself off everywhere you could.
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# Morning 17 string ID 4618
English
...Time to get ready.
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# Morning 18 string ID 4622
English
Even with Joseph here your morning routine was mostly the same. Just doubled, you supposed.
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# Morning 19 string ID 4626
English
Feed and water the horse. Horses. Both of them.
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# Morning 20 string ID 4630
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Make a pot of coffee. Double the amounts though. Let it brew for a little longer too, on the same fire as you'd used last night, together.
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