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When I woke up that morning it was 5:57. I don’t know how I remember that, but I do. I remember sitting there thinking that I had three more minutes, and that I should try to fall asleep again. And I remember deciding that would be stupid, because I wouldn’t wake up again.

So I sat up and put my boots on, rolling up my sleeping bag and stuffing it in the stuff sack.

“Hey, Tullia.” I shook her awake and she did the same for whoever was sleeping on the other side of her. I heard Bruce’s watch alarm go off across the camp so I peeked under the edge, looking for him so I could let him know I was awake. He looked out from under his tarp and I waved my hand at him before going back to getting ready for the day.

Because I had been on Self Care the day before, that meant that I was a Leader Of The Day (LOD). That meant I was going to have to help Luke navigate. Which was great because, I had done nothing with navigating the whole two weeks. So… I knew nothing about navigating. Normally when everyone was talking about which way to go, I was sitting there trying to get my breath back. Not looking at the map and talking about it like I was supposed to be doing.

I prayed that Luke and the rest of the crew would be able to get us to our campsite safely, since there was no way I was going to be able to do it.

Luke came out of his tarp ready to go.

“Ok, everyone. Cooks, you need to get started on cooking. If you’re on water, can you make sure the droms are full? And everyone else should be packing up the camp.”

There was a lot of grumbling at his announcement and I wondered what that was all about as I joined Luke near the tree in the middle of camp. Katie was going to watch us do the navigation, and I hoped I could get through it without sounding stupid.

It actually wasn’t that bad. I just agreed with Luke when I needed to, used the string to measure some things, and wrote in the notebook. It wasn’t hard, and it got me out of taking down the tarp. We weren’t done for a while, and when we were done, it was time to go eat. I had thought it would take them longer to make breakfast, but oh well.

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