(I found out how to do page spacing! :D )

They had been walking only about two hours and Marietta's feet already really ached. "Randie... my feet really hurt, and I think I'm getting a sore on the side of my foot. Could we take a break?" Marietta begged. Randie looked at her obviously feeling a little helpless. "You absolutely can't continue?" he asked incredulously.
"I'm sorry, I really got to sit down. I'm just not used to walking this much."
Randie sighed and plopped down right on the spot. "Fine."
"Sorry." Marietta said again, walking up beside him and sitting down a step or two away.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, before Randie pulled out the map and began looking at it thoughtfully. Marietta stood up and walked over behind him. Peering over his shoulder, she asked hesitantly, "Are you sure we're going the right way?"
"I think so... this is a little confusing, but I think I've got it." He replied uncertainly.
"We'd better be going the right way. Otherwise I've got sore feet for nothing."
"Right. Tell me when you're ready to walk again. We've still got daylight."
Marietta squinted at the map, then at the horizon, and then at the map again. After she repeated this sequence twice, Randie asked irritably, "What?"
Marietta responded slowly. "Isn't there supposed to be a landmark somewhere around here? A big rock?"
Randie frown at the map. "Well, lesse... there, that must be it, right?" He said, pointing.
"Are you kidding me?! That's tiny!"
"The map exaggerates, that's all. Most maps do."
"Righht..." Marietta responded sarcastically.
"Look do you want to be the guide?!" Randie asked, irritably shoving the map at her.
"No! I don't know how to read a map! Look, you said you could guide me to the castle, and you don't even know how to read a map?"
"I know how to read one, but you seem to think you can do better."
"Look, nevermind. Forget it. Just get us safely to the castle. I can walk again for a little bit, and then we'll get ready to sleep."
"Fine."
They began walking with a somewhat tense atmosphere that faded as time passed. It was not even beginning to get dark when they stopped for the day. Randie had packed two little clay bowls and some very shallow spoons which they used to eat some strange bean and mushroom dish which had come out of one of their cans. "Well, with progress like this we should arrive at the castle in about a year." Randie commented. Marietta examined his intent for a second before responding. He seemed to be partly teasing, but also a little annoyed at their lack of progress. "Well," Marietta said slowly, "I think after a little bit of traveling, I'll get better at it. Besides, I got the impression that it was only a few days walk to the castle." Randie frown a little. "That's true. But that's for a traveler. They walk about four or five times as much as we did today."
Marietta sighed. "Maybe I'll try walking without my shoes tomorrow, maybe my feet won't be as sore; or at least the sores won't be getting rubbed more." Neither of them being quite sure what to do with the dirty dishes and not wanting to waste water, they wiped them out with some leaves. After they had packed the dishes back in Randie's bag, they took out their blankets. Marietta looked around. "Randie, we didn't bring a tent of any kind. We can't sleep out in the open!" Randie dragged his bag over to a tree. "Why not?" He asked blankly.
"It's dangerous!"
"Well, maybe a little. But most animals won't bother us. And we hide from other people."
Marietta very hesitantly took out her blanket and said nervously, "if we die I will never forgive you."
Randie smiled real big and laid down his blanket in the shade of the tree he had chosen to rest under. "Alright, I'll keep that in mind. Good night!"
Marietta slept very fitfully that night. Whenever she finally dozed off, it seemed she woke up again a few minutes later (in actuality it was usually about a half hour, but when a person is sleeping they often don't have a very good grasp of the passage of time). When she looked around to find what woke her, she saw nothing, and all she heard was the silence of night and the occasional sounds of a variety of bugs. After she had finally got a solid two or three hours of sleep, she was woken up by Randie. The sun was just up, and Marietta figured if it weren't for her restless night this was about the time she would normally have gotten up. It was apparent to her that Randie had slept pretty well, when he said brightly, "Good morning! Ready for breakfast?" Marietta got out of her little roll of blanket and fumbled around for her glasses, which had fallen off during the night. Randie spotted them on the ground beside her, and realized she was looking for them. He swooped down on them. Holding them up and examining them he asked, "are these what you're looking for?" Marietta held out her hand for them without responding, squinting.
Randie, ignoring Marietta wondered aloud, "What are these anyway? They look kinda like those... monocle things? That rich old people wear? But actually they have both sides. And they're not round."
Marietta, phrasing like a request what was clearly a command, said, "Please give them back to me."
"Okay okay, here," Randie handed them to her and watched her put them on, "but what are they?" he asked.
"They are my glasses. They are kinda like monocles." Having put her glasses on, Marietta reached into her bag and brought out an apple and a can of food. Randie accepted the can offered him and opened it while Marietta ate her apple. They finished breakfast rather quickly, packed up their things, and headed out again. This time Marietta switched between going barefoot and wearing her shoes every half hour or so. This didn't work as well as she originally hoped, though it did work better than always wearing her shoes, as the sore spots were mostly on the sides of her feet where her shoes rubbed them. She watched Randie walking easily for miles in his strange homemade-looking leather slippers and felt slightly envious. "Randie, did you make those yourself?" she asked. Randie, who had clearly been spacing out while they walked asked, "what?"
"Your... uhh.. slippers? The things on your feet."
Randie looked down at his feet, as if to remember what he was wearing. "Oh! Yeah, I sewed them myself," he grinned, "didn't I do a good job?" Marietta smiled a little at his pride in his shoddy sewing and said, "yes, yes you did." They walked in silence again for a few more minutes before Marietta said slowly, "They must be good. It's too bad they don't fit me."
"Oh they might! Do you want to try them on?" Randie responded brightly. "They're a little big on me, and I've been told I have large feet for my age."
What followed was a somewhat comical scene in which Marietta tried on Randie's slippers and found that they were only a little small and that she could get them on. They continued walking for a little, Randie barefoot and Marietta wearing his slippers. After only so long though, Marietta found that in actuality the slippers were not much more comfortable than going barefoot and she returned them to him. Their walking time that day was much more than the previous, despite Marietta's sore from the previous day and to top it off they were also in better spirits. They stopped around lunch time to eat. Having gotten up a little after the sun they approximated that they had been walking for as much as four or five hours. Marietta expressed to Randie that she was at her limit and would probably have to rest for the rest of the day and maybe some of the next as well. She also griped a little when she thought about the possibility that they could have gotten horses or maybe someone with a carriage to give them a ride.
The next day they rested and the day after, while walking, they saw a town in the distance.
According to their map, there should have been no town there. Marietta chewed Randie out, accusing him of having no idea how to read a map. Randie got very upset and told her grumpily that they would ask for directions once they arrived at the town. Seeing their progress made walking easier, and having had a very long lunch break that day they were both rested and managed to reach the town the same day they saw it. When they arrived at the town, it was evening and they were both exhausted.