As promised

Here is the tidbit that I promised...What? Oh, you didn't think I was going to post the whole scene, did you? You'll have to make sure to buy my book when it's published. But for now, keep reading! Good night all. 

-Logan 

“It’s cold,” Ruby thought, stretching her arms out towards their small cooking fire. She flexed her fingers again and again to keep the circulation up. “I hope he’s alright out there. Wenbing and Ashong have been gone all day.”

            “Do you think that they found him?” She asked Geba. Turning to her from where he sat eating his dinner of boiled cabbage and carrots with rice, he calmly replied, “I can’t say for certain. But the fact that they haven’t returned gives me hope. They are still out there, and they’ll be searching if they haven’t already found him.”

            “If they don’t get here soon, then they’ll have nothing to eat. We’re almost out of food.” Agong added grumpily from where he sat.

            “While our lack of food is a concern, Agong, like Ruby, I myself am more concerned with the safe return of our friends. After all, all the fine fare in the world would be wasted on the few. Much better to have many friends and many mouths to feed.”

            “Hmm. I suppose you’re right. Wenbing has always been a steadfast ally, and irritating though his twit of a brother may be, I must admit that his absence is felt.” Agong grudgingly admitted. Geba and the old man seemed to have a special relationship. Agong took the council of this mysterious man much more seriously than he did that of others.  Maybe it had to do with his skill with gongfu, or maybe it was due to his simplistic wisdom and the way in which he viewed the world. Whatever it was, the deference was noted. Though Agong’s show of respect was really not much more than a slight decrease in his overall crabbiness. As she contemplated this, the sputtering sounds of a diesel engine could be heard pulling up to the cabin. Ruby leapt up, and pulling the door back hard, she ran outside. The truck was back. She could see Ashong at the steering wheel, but there was no sign of either Wenbing or Logan.