Imedently the students spread out, all wanting to do something different; some wanting to test their new powers, others wanting to find the village, and still some just wanting to explore.
Suddenly, Lola shouted, “Look! To the north! A stone castle!”
“Let’s go and see what’s inside!” said Reggie, getting excited.
“I don’t know,” Lisa pondered, “Even though he said that there were many things to excovate, shouldn’t we find that map and the village first?”
“Yeah,” Sophie replied, “I don’t know about you guys, but I, like, so want to find our place to sleep before we go ‘adventuring’”
“Oh, come on,” Chris groaned, “We have all day to do that, and besides that’s boring!”
“I agree,” Benjamin put in, “We should have a roof over our heads first.”
Lola snorted. “Well I’m going so there.”
With that, she began walking in the direction of the castle.
“Wait!” Benjamin yelled.
Lola just put up her head and kept going.
Benjamin sighed. It looked like they were going exploring today after all.
The other students ran to catch up.
•••
About one hour later, they arrived at the castle. All of them looked way up at it’s huge, stone building blocks.
“Now let’s see the inside!” Reggie prompted.
“I suppose,” answered Lisa.
“We have got to start heading back now,” Benjamin said urgently, “Before it gets dark!”
“You guys are all a bunch of chickens, let’s keep going!” Chris called from somewhere ahead.
The rest of the students followed eagerly, leaving Benjamin and Lisa standing there.
“I guess we have to go also.” Benjamin said. Lisa just nodded and off they went...
[ To be Continued... ]