Chapter 60

Were they actually good friends? Alistar couldn't help but wonder as they continued to jeer at one another. Though the two were constantly at odds, he knew from his weeks of ghosting along with the Dozen that Zech primarily hung out with Jaden and Woods.

An hour into the competition, Zech caught his fourth fish.

"Another one!" laughed the lean, sandy-haired boy. "Watch the master as he works."

So far, Jaden had only caught one, while Alistar hadn't even felt a nibble since his first bit of bait had been stolen.

Alistar sighed to himself as he watched several fish swim by, sensing dozens of smaller life forms in the area that he took to be other aquatic creatures. I wish they would just take a bite already. He preferred his uncle Raidon's method of using a spear, and was tempted to try to find a suitable branch to fashion into one.