Night Terrors

After the sunset we settled down to dinner that the lads were cooking on a campfire. The sunset was obscured by clouds but it was very pink and looked really desert. I was dark when we ate dinner and had a beer that we had bought with us. Really nice when Desert King started singing desert songs and the stars were out by the million.
We chatted for an n hour or two and then started seeing a jeep/car drive towards us and away into the distance about a mile away. We thought noting of it as there was an old track we had crossed earlier in the day. The guides looked a bit frisky though and surprised by the compact. The cars lights went off and after a while we started seeing torches. At this the guides started to look worried and kicked the fire out and told us to turn our torches off. Shit. This gave us all a bit of a spook and the way the guides were acting was worrying. Over the next 2 hours we watched the light come near and further away from us. The young lads were spotting from the top of a dune so we felt like, shit, what the fuck is happening? Desert King said it was nothing but he was a bad bluffer.
In the end car drove off after a few hours and we crashed out. It was a bit of a downer after a good evening as the guides behaviors freaked us out. They said it was lots of different things from Shepard’s to border patrol as we were right next to the Pakistan Border and there is a lot of Military out here. The changed the story every minute and we never got to the heart of it but all in all I think it was innocent and the lads were just surprised that there were other people out where we were. If anyone would have come over we probably would have to feed them or if the were officials then bribe them as a matter of course out here. Bribes are all prevalent in India in every level and corner of society. I don’t think we were in any harms way but still....

We slept under the starts that night and I woke up with that goat that had been following us asleep on the bottom of our blanket.