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16. The Great Escape
๐ŸŒฑ THE UNDERLINGS

16. The Great Escape

"NOOOOO!" Ru screamed, popping up from behind a rock. "DON'T HURT HIM!"

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Ro and Ru are caught between a growing Darkness and the Island itself, trying to stop it.
When the Island asks for help, they panic.
What can children do to save the Wild Lands?
โ€ฆespecially when they're only four inches tall?

The Underlings is a new fantasy adventure for children and their parents.

Make sure to tell a friend!


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Underlings

Well, here we are, reader.

At the end.

It makes my heart sad to see Ro in such danger, with Ru and Kari so close behind him.

I wish I had better news for you, but I'm afraid this is all going to end badly.

Yes, I know I said last time that I believed everything would be okay, butโ€ฆthis wasn't at all what I thought Ro and Ru's adventure would be like. Not when they ran away from their father and the Crumblers.

What?

I never said I knew everything that would happen to them.

Coming to the Skimmers was supposed to allow Ro and Ru to hide. To make some new friends and wait for their father to stop looking so hard for them.

โ€ฆand what did they get?

A new, crazy Den Father, who has taken over an entire islandโ€ฆand somehow taken the life-force of the island itself!

How can children win against someone like that?

What's that?

Iโ€ฆwell, okay, maybe I am jumping ahead, and should have more faith and confidence in Ro and Ru.

โ€ฆbut LOOK at Roโ€ฆhe's DROWNING!

Sorryโ€ฆdidn't mean to yell like that.

I'm worried, and I'm almost afraid to watch.

โ€ฆwhich is why I'm glad you're here with me.

You're braver than I am, reader.

*sigh*

I'm going to cross my fingers this time.

(I think you should do it tooโ€ฆ)

Here we goโ€ฆ

The Den Father looked angry and hurt. His tunic was torn in many places. He had cuts on his face, hands and armsโ€ฆprobably from the cave collapsing. How he'd survived was a mystery.

Now the Den Father stood over Ro, smiling.

In fact, the Den Father was standing over everything.

That's because he was on top of a giant pillar of water, which he'd pulled up from the ocean at the edge of the cliff. Now he was using his 'gift', to use that water from the pillar to drown poor Ro. Smooshing him against the ground.

Struggling to breathe, Ro panicked.

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