Besnik Alternate Ending

Besnik stood at the door of the tent in which he had been a guest for the past few days. He had decided to leave as the sun was peeking over the horizon, because he would have hated to say goodbye to the gracious family that had taken him in, and wanted to wake before the dog. He slung his brown sack over his shoulder, and started his long trek down the dusty snaking path that made its way laboriously from the suburbs and rural areas to the cosmopolitan urban areas through the unrelenting brown, barren plains. He sighed with a heavy heart set, loping slowly with long strides. As he walked along, he tried to distract his mind from the challenge that lay ahead of him with all the wonders of nature around him. As the days stretched on, the sky …show more content…
The land seemed like one of those ballads he had heard as a child, which seem to drag a story into eternity. As Besnik walked along the road, dust of which was now unifying all of his clothes in color, he kept his head down on the road, trying to make time. About the time when his shadow was a small ring encircling his feet, his shoulder bumped a woman walking down the road. She fell down, grunting, and immediately covering the back of her dress in copious amounts of dust. Besnik helped her up, and after she had stood, and dusted herself off, she glared up at his face. After she had stormed off in the other way, and Besnik had stared after her with eyes narrowed to slits and darkened by the heat of anger. The hot feeling in his face subsided when he managed to take his mind off of the embarrassment of the previous situation and focused on walking. Soon, he arrived at the city. The buildings rose in a cathedral-like stature, and the monuments might have even been called magnificent, but Besnik hardly noticed, he was too busy looking down into the faces of the passersby. Besnik always had considered people to be more valuable, interesting, and beautiful than things, and that attitude was certainly manifesting itself in his experience in the city. Eventually, and somewhat miraculously, he made it down to the office of the officer's