Plotting

"Chirp!"

"Chirp!"

The chirping of birds rang around as the sun rose up the horizon bringing along the start of a new day. It was also the time when the two guests who had been staying in the remote village of the Trial had gotten up to leave.

"I won't accompany you ahead.." The guard spoke as he looked at Max and Blinken. There was still some hostility in the villagers regarding the two of them. If it was not for the fact that the village chief had declared them innocent, the people would have thrown stones at them.

But, what could one say? The villagers had suffered recently with the strange change in climate. And, somehow the rumours had spread that these strangers were responsible for it. This came at the perfect moment when the villagers needed someone to take their anger out on.