Hot Spell
It was all you could think about.
The awful, oppressive heat.
Your bedclothes had long been kicked to the other side of the tent - even a thin cotton sheet felt like a heavy wool blanket.
Every part of you dripped with sweat - all around your hairline, the back of neck, behind you knees. Everywhere skin met skin, sweat.
You weren’t sure how long you had tossed and turned, but it felt like hours. Hours, slowly roasting in this endless, humid, heat .
You sat up, sighing in frustration, snatching up your waterskin and uncorking it.
You drank deep, gulping down mouthfuls of tepid water, but it did nothing to cool you. A dribble of water fell from the corner of your mouth and you felt it track down the side of your throat, over your chest onto your already damp shirt - but the water only teased, just as warm as the buckets of sweat already pouring off you.
Desperate, you pulled the drenched tunic off and threw it away, finding the tiniest shred of relief in being naked.