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Has he forgotten I’m here?

I take a tentative step toward the opening of the cave, and he suddenly juers He approaches, and I back away His wild expression as he holds the dangling hunk of flesh out to me makes , my only means of escape

I don’t get far

“Let rabs me by the waist and hauls be back into the cave and close to the fire For ato throw ain

“Leave me alone!” I shout “Please, please, just leave me alone!”

He holds le as s burn as I kick and hit, but he barely even notices ainst him as he sits near the fire and holds et away

He’s not hurting me

Telling ain does little to relieve the terror inside of ain but to no avail I’er hold back, and I surrender to o limp in his arms

As I sob into his shoulder, the caveently strokes my hair

“Please,” I say through wails, “please just let o!”

He grunts and holds me to his chest I try to resist, but I’m simply too tired My muscles don’t want to obey my commands, and all I can do it sit there in his lap and cry as he runs his hands over ins to rock me as if I were a child in distress

After a while, he reaches over to the fire and yanks a piece of meat off the bone He holds it up to ain I don’t want

anything froet back to where I was before—in the hole—so my father can locate me

How long will it be before he realizes I’one? Hoill he even knohere to look?

I go over the events at the ain Oneto find so and thought I had dislodged a wire fro to , I had shoved the loose wire back into place The next moment, I was somewhere very different I was trapped at the botto up into the blue sky and the green eyes of the caveman