New Tales Of The Gobi Desert:
Evalina’s Journey
Kennedy School, Jade Jeffries, Fiction: Group 2
Chapter 1: Evalina Sahara
Evalina Sahara sat on the warm sand, her back against Camela the camel. She was trying to rub
the sand off her feet. Never before did she have to stop, but the sand was especially hot today.
She held something close to her body while she drank some water. She never knew why she
kept a glass vial full of sand close, but she knew it would come in handy. As she had never had
a family, she had been traveling all her life, collecting food and water to sell or trade for other
goods. She also had to cover up her long brown hair as it was against the law for it to be shown.
She had always worn a pile of cloth on her body. “When will my continuous journey end?”
Evalina asked Camela. “Why did my family have to desert me at this horrid place? Why did they
leave me with you?!” her rage filled her body. Although she had thought that she’d been placed
there for the better, it just made her madder. She’d had thought that they’d at least let her have a
happy childhood and explain to her everything, but they hadn’t. They just left her there to rot,
or at least Evalina thought so. The Gobi Desert was a sandy, dry, place (aren’t all deserts)? With a
little supply of water people were barely able to survive and some people were homeless so when
sandstorms struck they’d be wiped out with sand stuck in their eyes, causing tragic blindness.
Evalina always survived because she had always built a stronghold with her which was made of a
giant supply of bottled water that she mixed with sand.
Chapter 2: A Mystery
As Evalina stared at the vial filled with sand she wondered what it would do to her. Lead her to
destruction or safety. Evalina knew that she was bursting to open the vial, but she wanted it to
be at the right time. As she stopped by a village market she saw a chain. “Excuse me?” she asked,
“How much is this chain?” “One gold coin,” the shopkeeper replied. As she gave the shiny gold
coin to the shopkeeper, she knew exactly what she was going to do. “Thank you!” she exclaimed
and as she skipped around the shop towards the exit, she was so happy. She thought the chain a
lot of help. She slipped the chain under the loop in the vial and put it on. She adored it while she
rode away on Camela. When she finally arrived her old stronghold, she knew a mystery was upon
her. The chain made her feel as if her DIY necklace was a piece of rusty gold. Brooding on this,
she slowly drifted off to sleep.
Chapter 3: The Map
Evalina woke up to a unknown sound-apparently Camela. She got out of the stronghold to find
something missing: the necklace. She started searching despairingly all over the place. “No!” she
cried as she found the broken vial in the corner of the stronghold. Her tears ran down her face
as she looked at the broken glass. Her eyes caught a weird scroll from behind the sand. “What?!”
Evalina exclaimed. She picked up the scroll, took of the ribbon and opened the scroll. It read:
