Final Fanstory 1
an excerpt

An excerpt from early in the story that sums up my feelings quite well. I am nowhere near finished the story. Good greif, I'll be still going by next Nano.
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"They can't afford to shoot at runners from the wall any more," Zebediah explained to them as Venya squinted at the map, "They save their ammunition for the bigger ones now. You can't even read a map!" He saw Venya tracing a path with her finger and stood up, then over her shoulder he reached and pointed out a spot on the map, "We're still only here!"
"We've been walking for hours! We're at least out here somewhere."
"No, we're here! What kind of scale do you think this is? Don't you know how to read a map?" Zebediah tried to take the map off Venya and she snatched it back.
"YES I can! We're here somewhere... look, see? This is the hill we're on now..."
"No it's not, You don't know anything! We're still on the same hill, look, you can SEE it from here!"
Lillian sat back and stayed quiet for a moment then quietly put her hand on the map and said, "He's kind of right. We haven't gone very far."
"How can we have only gone this far in this long?" Venya sighed.