Chapter 2: Revenge on Mother Nature He crouched, spear in hand, watching the furried menace hop through the clearing. When suddenly the Zith nation attacked. The cart his cabbages were settled in, nice and protected, were knocked askew, to his great horror! “Never again, the cabbages are where you have gone too far!” The Zith cackled and wagged their fingers, some of them hefting up cabbages and carrying them off into the night as their leader spoke, "you reek of myrian flesh, and we'd eat you if you smelled better." The boy pouted and swore he'd get vengeance against the Zith, until the tea drinking Lagool lashed out in defense of his human pet. And then a herd of Glassbeaks appeared on the horizon. The Glassbeaks and Zith began an epic struggle over the wagon of cabbages, all the while the lagool bent near the boy asking “Erin, fate has given you a choice…” |