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Chapter six
He woke up, everything blurry. He had fainted from his excruciating pain, and
still felt horrible. Like someone was compressing his hand, slowly squashing it.
Sitting, pondering. What was he going to do? Jason couldn't take it, he hated the
feeling of isolation. So he felt that he had to do something. Suddenly, he
remembered about the set of cutlery in his back pocket. But how could he use it
to escape?
Still sitting, still pondering. He opened up the cutlery set and realised that he
only had a spoon left after his fall because his knives had got stuck in the dirt
near the top of the hole. That did not leave him with many options of escape.
After a few minutes of thinking, Jason decided to dig out of the dirt walls with
his spoon. Now to actually dig out. The biggest problem was that Jason was
right handed and he had broken his right wrist when he had fallen earlier. This
would make it impossible for him to use his right hand which would make his
escape harder and slower because he would have to use his left hand to dig to
freedom. But the pain was unbearable! Maybe he could wait a bit longer before
he started digging so that his wrist hurt less. But then he heard footsteps.
Footsteps that were coming towards him from the top of the hole. Jason hoped
that it was Apanie and Ed coming back for him to help him out even though
they still believed that he had betrayed them. Suddenly, the mine worker that
was guarding him before appeared at the top of the hole. He must have figured
out who I am, and realised that I am his boss's son! Jason thought. More mine
workers' heads appeared into view and they slowly lowered a rope ladder down
to Jason.
Realising that Jason was unable to climb the ladder, one of the men climbed
down to help him up the ladder and out of the hole. Once Jason was up out of
the mineshaft, the mine workers forced him into their bright-blue truck and they
started driving towards his father’s office, on the other side of the large
complex. Sitting in the back of the truck, Jason realised that the only way to
save the water source and heal his broken friendships with Ed and Apanie was
to stand up to his father and shut down his mining company.
It sounded easier than it was going to be.
Chapter seven
Jason stood frozen. The man who he feared all his life was standing over him,
the way he always had been. And he was defenseless, like he always had been.
This was how it all started, and this is how it all was to end. There was no way
to win this. He looked at his shoes, head bowed in shame. He had lost. Again.