Amasa Back (Still Day Fifteen)

Tom has followed the Rock Stacker trail and found a way to the river but it's at least a mile and a half terrain from the village and with the size of the pottery sherds that he has found, especially around the rim, he can't imagine hiking all the way down there to hike back with what's probably not much more than a couple of quarts of water which could easily be consumed just to support the climb. It's Tom's conclusion that either the water source they had is no longer or they lived there part time.