Chakik felt a twinge of compunction as they left the sheep outside, as he had begrudgingly agreed to keep an eye on her. The turtle didn’t look back as he silently moved across the opening and into the darkened room, Chakik bound quickly behind, it had been the turtle who had asked him to look after Sunny in the first place. Sunny let out a final bleat of protest as the tip of the squirrels tail disappeared into the darkness. “How did we end up here” Chakik puzzled silently to himself as his eyes slowly adjusted to the dark. It smelled of rotten things and other unpleasant odors the squirrel could not discern. “All this to see a whale?”
[to be continued]