Act III
Chapter 6 Training Begins
The village leader returned the next morning; she brought with her a change of clothes for Daniel. “Good morning, are you up to getting out and walking around on your own today?” She said with a smile as she put the clothes down on the ground next to his bed. “Yes, I feel great I can’t wait to get up and walk around and see this village.” Said Daniel with a smirk on his face. She simply smiled at him and left him to change.
It didn’t take long before Daniel was up; he came out of the hut and looked around. After a few minutes of stretching, he decided that he would walk around the city and explore a little bit. Daniel walked around the village for quite some time before he met up with the village leader again. “Hello Sir. Daniel how are you feeling now?” She said as she walked up next to him. “I feel a little tired, but I’m recovering a lot better than I expected. So tell me what do I call you is it just chief or do you have a name that I can use?” Replied Daniel, she looked over at him as she walked alongside him. “Yes, you could call me chief if you like but my name is Sophie.” Sophie showed Daniel around the village for the rest of the morning.
The two came to a large building close to the edge of the city, headed inside and to the top. From there they could see everything in the entire city all at once. “I spend most of my time looking over my city, making the choices and decisions it takes to run this city to keep everyone happy. I brought you here because I know you have more questions for me, but I actually need to get back to work. I have spent enough time walking around with you today and not doing my work. But I do want to do as much as I can to help you, it’s the least I can do to thank your father for bringing us here.” Said Sophie as she sat down in a chair that faced the outside looking over everything. Then smiled as she began to do her work of managing the city.
As she worked, she began to speak. “So now I’m guessing that you’re wondering about how it is that your father came and went seeing that there is no possible way he could have climbed back up the waterfall.” Sophie said as she wrote on a piece of paper. “Actually yes, I was just thinking about that. Looking at that waterfall, I know there’s no possible way that anyone could ever climb it. So there has to be another way out of here right?” Daniel said hoping that she would say yes it’s over there and just point to an entrance in the wall with the word exit written all over it. But he wasn’t nearly that lucky.
“Yes there it is, it’s right under you at the bottom of the lake that the city floats on.” Replied Sophie, Daniel’s eyes followed the waterfall down to the lake quickly. A waterfall that high would certainly dig a very deep hole, which meant the bottom of the Lake would be very far down. Too far down for him to actually make it, without losing consciousness. Daniel realized quickly that this was the reason they had remained so isolated for generations and generations. If someone by some amazing chance managed to get here and was still alive, there was no way for them to leave. Not only that but there was no way for them to contact the outside world.
Daniel leaned on to one of the walls, staring at the waterfall and thinking which would be easier. Trying to get out through the bottom of the Lake, which he had no idea how far down it actually went, or to climb a 500-foot waterfall against crushing water.
“There is no possible way that I can swim to the bottom of the Lake without dying.” I said to her and paused for her reply, she simply looked over at me with a smirk on her face as if she was laughing at something. Then I realize what she was smacking about it was what I just said. “Well I mean without blacking out before I got to the bottom.”
