@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social
2026-08-06 03:28 UTC
"we might get lost if we run away, we are so far from home." "I remember the way," said his brother, so they made a plan to escape. A few days later the old man took the boys with him and the three set out together for a hunt in the mountains. When they were well away from the settlement the boys killed the old man, took all the meat and parched corn meal they could easily carry, and started to make their way back to the north, keeping away from the main trail and following the ridge of the
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@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 03:29
mountains. After many days the came to the end of the mountains and found a trail which the older brother knew as the one along which they had been taken when they were first captured. They went bravely now until they came to a wide clearing with houses at the farther end, and the older brother said, "I believe there is where we used to live." It was so long ago that they were not quite sure, and besides they were now dressed the enemy warriors that took them, so they thought it safer to wait