Beneath the Eye of God (The Commodore Ardcasl Space Adventures Book 1) by Payne Lee

Author:Payne, Lee [Payne, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-03T18:30:00+00:00

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A mighty horse was wandering lost in the forest. He was a powerful animal but every turn he made led him farther from the path and deeper among the trees.

It had been a bad year in the forest. Dry winds had come among the treetops in the dark of the night and had stayed. The warm breath of the forest no longer mixed with the moist air from the sea to form the morning mist that washed all the treetops and collected in the myriad pools hidden among the topmost branches.

The forest continued to breathe its warm breath into the air but the hot winds took it and gave no moisture in return. The water grass stopped growing fat and wet. It saved its moisture by growing thin and dry. The little treetop pools were drying up and the thousands of tiny creatures who lived in and around them were dying. Without these tiniest creatures, the bigger ones began to go hungry. Without the bigger creatures, the forest cats began to suffer.

They cried to the King of the Cats, "Do something. If the moist winds do not return soon, we shall perish."

Even before they came to him, the King of the Cats had been thinking and thinking. He knew he could not change the winds. They blow where they will with little regard for the needs of cats. He knew that the trees would survive until the moist winds came again because they could reach down deep into the ground where the hidden rivers flowed. It was only the animals who needed water if they were to survive.

The only water he knew of was in the hidden rivers and the only way he knew to get it was to topple a water tree. But that, he realized, was a foolish idea for though cats could gnaw away some of the smallest aerial roots and undermine some of the larger ones, there was absolutely no way that cats, even all of them together, could topple a mighty tree.

The great horse was also having an unpleasant time in the forest. He was lost, the grass was thin and dry and his plated skin prickled and itched for want of a bath.

The King of the Cats watched from the lower branches as the horse wandered in circles through the trees, complaining and trying to scratch his armored hide. It occurred to the King of the Cats that this horse could help him find water but he knew that horses were selfish beasts who might refuse to share that water. He also knew that horses did not know the secret of the water tree and for some reason, the King of the Cats hesitated to tell them.

But as the dry winds continued to blow and the cats got hungrier and thirsty, the King of the Cats knew he had no choice. He would have to trust this horse with the secret of the water tree.

The King of the Cats walked out on a low branch and called down to the horse.

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