4.6 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Once upon a time there were three siblings named Maddie, Weston, and Eloise. |
0:18.5 | They had just set off on a hike with their parents, boots laced, backpack strapped, and a pair |
0:24.4 | of binoculars bouncing between them. |
0:26.9 | The desert was alive with light and shadow that morning, but they knew it wouldn't stay |
0:31.7 | that way for long. |
0:33.1 | Before they stepped onto the dusty trail, their dad gave them a look. |
0:37.1 | The serious one, the one that meant, hey, listen up. |
0:40.7 | All right, guys, stay on the path, okay? |
0:43.4 | And their mom handed out water bottles and stick together. |
0:47.6 | Maddie took a sip. |
0:48.8 | It was cold and crisp. |
0:51.1 | Hmm, thanks, Mom. |
0:52.9 | Drink often, Mom said, it's dry out here. And they nodded and set off, |
0:57.6 | their feet crunching against the packed dirt. Earlier that week, they had visited the Park's |
1:03.2 | Visitor Center where they had seen plaques about the different cacti in the desert. They looked like |
1:09.5 | thick, spiny beasts twisting toward the sky. |
1:14.0 | Out here, the desert felt wild, untamed, and full of things that could poke, scratch, or sting. |
1:21.9 | And then something skittered across the path. It was a lizard. It zipped up to the top of a rock and it froze, |
1:30.1 | watching them. And the kids stood there staring back, barely breathing. And then a tiny flame |
1:38.2 | puffed from its snout. No one moved and no one spoke. Had they really just seen that? |
1:46.0 | Suddenly, a shriek split the air. |
1:49.1 | It was a hawk. |
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