CHAPTER 9
Orchid enjoyed the favorite game with Maine, as it kept her mind busy with something carefree while she worked. They pulled as many vegetables and picked as much fruit as they could carry, finally returning to the tree house and Tanner after a couple of hours.
He was awake and standing up in the shelter. He had good color, and Orchid offered him a drink from their last water bottle. He took it and said, “Thank you guys so much. I’m going to try to help today.”
“Nope,” Orchid said as she spread the tarp out near the back of the shelter, to the right of where she and Maine had slept the night before. The hole Tanner had made when he’d fallen through the floor was still several feet away, and everything seemed stable. “Not happening. Maine is going to set the solar filtration sys
