The Treetop Tribes

Episode Six

Jim woke up with Sofia standing over him. She opened the doors to his cell. “You will be put to work today. It will not be easy, and it will not be rewarding. You will not enjoy, but you will do it?” Her glare on him intensified. Do you understand? “Yes Mam!” Jim replied, shaking in his boots from the tone of the beast. She handed him a pickaxe. You will be in the mountains, mining. We are going to need to a lot of metal to push back your horrible army. You will fly up there on one of our pteranodons, mine as much metal as you can carry, and fly back down to us, insert the metal in the smelting station, and repeat. And before you even think about it, do not try to fly away from us on your pteranodon. We have other trained flyers

who will be accompanying you, and they will not hesitate to kill you.

The sun scorched Jim’s head. He lifted his pickaxe and swung once again, collecting more metal. He headed back into his pteranodon, flying back the smelting station. When he arrived Sophia was waiting for him. “You can now go back to your cell.” When he arrived there, he was greeted by a small piece of cooked meat and a canteen half full with water. He head never had a meal so good in his entire life.