“YOU CAN’T MAKE THAT CLIMB IN YOUR CONDITION.” EDDIE AGREED.
         
           “YOU MAKE ME SOUND PREGNANT.” CLAE SNAPPED.EDDIE GRINNED.
         
           “NO.” DRAKE SAID.WITH A LAST ROLL OF HER EYES,CLAE LUNGED FOR THE ROCK
         
         AND EASILY FOUND A FOOTHOLD.SHE SCAMPERED UP AND ALL THE WHILE SILENTLY SAND
         
         THE WORDS OF POISON’S SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.DOWN BELOW HER SHE HEARD
         
         EDDIE SAYING “MAN OH MAN,” OVER AND OVER.SHE ALSO HEARD DRAKE YELLING
         
         AT HER.SMALL PEBBLES WERE LOOSENED WITH HER GROPING HANDS AND SEEKING
         
         FEET AND CLAE CHEWED ON HER TONGUE.SHE HADN’T REALIZED HOW FAR UP IT WAS.
         
         SHE SWERVED TO MISS SOME ROTTING ROOTS AND SILENTLY CURSED AND SHE CUT
         
         HER WRIST OPEN ON A JAGGED EDGE.CLAE KEPT HER ATTENTION FOCUSED UP AND
         
         HER EYES SCANNED THE FUTURE HAND HOLDS.SHE CLIMBED SLOWER AS THE FAMILIAR
         
         SENSE OF LONLINESS SETTLED IN THE PIT OF HER STOMACH.SHARP PEICES OF THE
         
         WALL SCRAPED HER LEGS AND WITH A FINAL HEAVE,SHE THREW HERSELF ONTO THE TOP.
         
         SHE JUST SAT AND CAUGHT HER BREATH FOR A MINUTE OR TWO AND THEN STOOD UP.
         
         SHE STEPPED A STEP FROM THE EDGE AND LOOKED DOWN AND WAVED.DRAKE WHOOPED
         
         AND EDDIE CLAPPED.CLAE WALKED DOWN THE SHARPLY DROPPING DECLINE AND CLIMBED
         
         THROUGH THE DENSE AND COOL UNDERBRUSH.HUGE TROPICAL PLANTS FEATHERED
         
         OUT AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS WERE ARRANGED HERE AND THERE.CLAE INHALED DEEPLY
         
         AND REMEMBERED HER MOTHER BACK HOME.HER MOTHER WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS.SHE
         
         SILENTLY THANKED GOD FOR KEEPING HER ALIVE AND THE DUCKED UNDER SOME
         
         HEAVY FALLEN TREES.SHE WALKED LIGHTLY AND CAREFULLY,SINCE SHE KNEW SHE
         
         WAS ON A CLIFF.SHE LOOKED UP AND SPOTTED BANNANAS IN A CLUMP ON A TREE.
         
         CRYING WITH JOY,SHE TOOK THE LARGE KNIVE WITH IT’S RETRACTABLE BLADE,
         
         OUT OF HER POCKET.SHE FLICKED OPEN THE BLADE AND CUT THE LARGE CLUMP DOWN.
         
         SHE TOOK OFF HER SWEATER AND WRAPPED IT IN THAT.THEN SHE FASTENED IT AROUND
         

         





         HER NECK LIKE A SLING.SHE PEELED ONE AND ATE IT HAPPILY.SUDDENLT FROM THE
         
         UNDERBRUSH A WILD BOAR RAN OUT,SQUEALING AND SCREAMING.HE RAN THROUGH
         
         THE PLANTS AND HID.CLAE LAUGHED AND DISCARDED THE BANNANA PEEL.SHE