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Hawk and Eve were together. Matthew hunched down in a small ravine. Little Eagle and Fawn went behind some trees and Bear and Jinx did the same. Fawn still carried Jane Ann.
Eve watched her to make sure they had cover.
The shooting went on forever. Only one or two of the Comanche fell dead. Ammunition was low and Hawk wasn't at all sure they could endure a full size raid on the camp again. Things were beginning to look very grim. Their water supply had been cut off, there was no food with them, and they were pinned down with a dwindling ammunition supply.
As near as Hawk could figure, there were about twelve of them, and they'd killed two.
"Don't use all your ammunition." Hawk called to the others. "Try to pick them off." Hawk told them.
The well was in sight, but he wasn't sure he could get to it and there was nothing to put water in if he did.
Their only hope was to wait until dark.
One of the cabins had been finished though, if they could all get to that, they would have some cover and provisions. The real problem was they had no water.
As darkness came the Comanche camped.
Waiting for the moon to go behind a cloud, Hawk went to the well for water as soon as it darkened. He pulled the bucket up from the well and carried it to Eve. She drank her fill and he motioned for the others to come and drink.
When everyone had their fill, they seemed to revive.
A norther was blowing up and the air became cooler. Now Fawn wrapped Jane Ann in the blanket she had wrapped around her and kept her warm.
The others snuggled down as much as they could.
The wind picked up and the rain poured down like a gully washer. Hail split the ground with its hard little rocks of ice. Be
cause of the dense trees, no one was that hurt from the hail.
There was noise from the Comanche camp and they picked up their belongings and left.
By morning, everyone was shivering from the cold and they looked about. The Comanche had gone.
Relieved they all went inside the cabin and after warming up; Eve and Fawn began fixing them all something to eat. The fighting was over.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Winter was lurking about them as Hawk and the other men went about building more of their homes. Hawk built Eve a cellar to put her canned goods in, and a corral for the horses too. They began building a barn too, to have a place to store things and put the animals in bad weather.
It was a good start.
However, the cold of winter came in a harsh blast. A blizzard hit them in December, covering everything in snow and ice. They had built three houses, one barn, a corral and a cellar.
The men worked tirelessly to finish up what needed doing. Bear made firewood for the winter. Jinx helped Hawk with building he was talented, in that he could make nice cabinets in the cabins, and he even began working on furniture.
One surprise happened when he brought in a cradle for the baby.
By now, Eve was a butterball and was sure she was carrying twins.
"We're going to need another one of those I fear, Jinx."
"I'll start right away," he smiled.
Eve knitted a lot for the babies and Jane Ann was beginning to get bigger and more self confident in doing things for herself. She helped her mother and Fawn a lot around the house.
All the meals were taken at the big cabin, it made it easier than fixing two or three meals and Jinx had made Eve a large table so everyone could sit around it.
The snow didn't go away for a week and everyone was tired of it. The men had to go out in it everyday to tend the livestock and check on things, bring in some meat when they could.
