Terra - Chapter 3"Hey, Mason.""Yeah?" he said, turning from what he was doing. "Seriously, I'm not cold. You don't have to do that."He stared down at his hands. For about fifteen minutes, he'd been trying to light a fire. There was a tree stump that stuck out of the hard-packed earth, and Mason was trying to use it as fuel. But no such luck."You say that now," he began with a lighthearted laugh, "but wait until night falls. It may be warmer down in here, but you'll still freeze.""We're staying till nightfall?" I asked."Yeah. If we don't get hungry, I might even suggest spending the night here.""Ugh. I haven't eaten all day!""Ha-ha." Mason chuckled. He
Terra - Chapter 2Rodan ruthlessly shoved me into a jail cell. My cell was the only one in the small room. Nothing was in there with me but a dirt floor and a row of miniscule windows that were five feet off the ground. Under my clothes, my leg was bleeding. When Rodan pushed me down, my concealed knife had grazed my skin. Why the guards hadn't searched me for weapons was still a mystery to me, but I was partially grateful for the knife still being on my body. "Wretched creature." Rodan spat at me. "The old mayor was a kind man who never sought to harm a fly. Mr. Carter made this town heaven. Now the new mayor makes it a hell. This is your fault, your doing.