and I guess I'd better start doing them!"
74 "Me, too," added another boy. "I've got plans for the free day, and
if I don't get my homework done, I don't go
out!"
75 They departed, and the rest of the group continued on. They had
hardly gone a block when several other boys approached from another
direction.
76 "Oh, oh!" sighed Thundering Hawk, "I should have known! Screaming
Boar and half his pack, just about the worst ones of this lot!"
77 As the other boys got nearer, their leader spoke up. "Well, if it
ain't Hawky Hawky, and he doesn't have all his soldiers with him.
Getting pretty bold, aren't you, Beak Breath, coming into onener
territory without your army? Or are these squirts all you can muster
now?"
78 "Cool down, garbage breath," warned Thundering Hawk, "It's a free
world. We go where we please. And as for my friends, I wouldn't mess
with them, especially him! He'll burn your ass!"
79 "I wouldn't mess with him anyway," commented the other boy. "I know
who he is, and my people learned the HARD way a long time ago, don't
mess with HIS kind! What you doing, anyway getting religion?"
80 "Yes he is," put in The Young Speaker. "As a matter of fact he's
going to become a Speaker and rule this kingdom, then, the world.
Course, he's got to work at it a while, first, but he'll do a good job.
You're going to be his First Warlock by the way."
81 The other boys roared with laughter and their leader pulled a chain
from under his shirt. It had the gold circle with the cross attached to
it.
"Sorry, Little Prophet!" he laughed, "Wrong religion! I
work for the OTHER side! Your people might think a lot of what you say,
but frankly I think it's all stupid.