The Curse of the King
“I STOOPED down and plucked the tablet out of the jungle grass.
I was running too fast, being too hasty. The jungle humidity drenched me. My hands were slippery. I needed the tablet to check my bearings, my blue dots, but I kept dropping it.
Where were they?
There.
Their two dots were looping around from the north. They’d had a big head start, and they were way closer to the hatch than I was. My dot was at the extreme western part of the screen. I’d never catch up to them. I’d have to go straigh...t to the hatch.
Clutching tight to the tablet, I ran. I lifted my feet as high as they could go. Overhead, birds and monkeys screeched as if they were watching a soccer match. As I got closer I shouted, “Aly! Cass!”
My answer was a chorus of hoots, caws, and shrieks. My friends were never going to hear me.
My blue dot moved toward the goal faster than Aly’s and Cass’s did from the north. When I was on top of the big X, I stopped.
I looked around for a hatch, but all I saw was the same old jungle mess.MoreLess
I was running too fast, being too hasty. The jungle humidity drenched me. My hands were slippery. I needed the tablet to check my bearings, my blue dots, but I kept dropping it.
Where were they?
There.
Their two dots were looping around from the north. They’d had a big head start, and they were way closer to the hatch than I was. My dot was at the extreme western part of the screen. I’d never catch up to them. I’d have to go straigh...t to the hatch.
Clutching tight to the tablet, I ran. I lifted my feet as high as they could go. Overhead, birds and monkeys screeched as if they were watching a soccer match. As I got closer I shouted, “Aly! Cass!”
My answer was a chorus of hoots, caws, and shrieks. My friends were never going to hear me.
My blue dot moved toward the goal faster than Aly’s and Cass’s did from the north. When I was on top of the big X, I stopped.
I looked around for a hatch, but all I saw was the same old jungle mess.MoreLess
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