powder-dry

Updated: May 25, 2025

He made a second trip to secure a great armful of the powder-dry time-rotted core of the stump. His third expedition carried him a little farther afield to a small sapling which he could barely make out through the night. He bent down the top of the little tree and snapped off about five feet of its length. This in turn he brought to the shelter. He stopped short here, frozen with amazement.

Max Brand - Harrigan