I picked up the pup and put it down. He'd go away. He didn't. For the entire day he was around my ankles and would try and make me play. While I was hoeing the fields, cleaning animals and eating lunch I would always have him tugging my leg. Eventually I picked him up and carried him to the little children. All the kids squealed in joy. The little dog was happy so I left him.
I got my final jobs done and hobbled off to the main part of the camp. Then my foot struck something. Normally you wouldn't notice it. A wheel handle, like I saw in the tunnel thing I fell into. I leant over. Not too old. I put my hands on either side of it and twisted. Stiff but not impossible. I yanked it to the right. Oh, yeah. Lefty loosey, righty tighty (I hate that phrase). I pulled and pulled and finally it went. I pulled up and a trap door came up showing a stair way. I stumbled down and walked down a stairway and finally found my way to solid floor. It was really dark so I took out my lighter and clicked it on. It threw a low light onto the walls and I could just make out the tunnel and began to follow the path. Then I saw something on the wall. A sign saying 'xylophine reserve - room 12'. That could be great. I followed the signs. It was odd. Why would a government faculty look so old? My lighter began to fade and made a few attempts at light till it went out. From that point on I had to guide my way through the tunnel with my hands. Suddenly a light pierced the darkness. Walking to it I realised that it was where I was heading. Room 12. I got to the door and opened it. The lights turned on in series and soon enough there was Thousands of tiny needles of xylophine. I picked up the nearest one. Turning it I soon realised that there was something wrong. 'The wolf' said that there wasn't that much xylophine, but, judging by the amount of it in the room there was enough for an army. I turned it over and there was a glass 'window'. The needle was empty. I looked through more. Nearly all were empty. I pocketed the full ones and began to walk out. I saw a ladder and began to climb when I saw a map. It showed the county we lived in and our small village and a nearby city was circled with a cross on this big building in the city. Written was 'exposion zone'. At first I thought that it was just xylophine which was going to be used but on closer inspection it said, 'kill zone'. Completely it read:
Due to our recent coverage of the same area with xylophine we discovered that it did not work on all so decided to get one test subject to be used to protect the adults by freezing them. Then a worker will make sure they don't freeze and kill off the children. This will undo the freeze and everything will go back to normal and the infectious children will go away.
I went as quick as I could out with an injured foot and got out into the sun.
