Jumper was excited to travel farther north than he had ever been. Alan, not so much. He became visibly more apprehensive the further they went. Hol4 was looking downright depressed sitting next to Jumper and wasn’t talking at all. The landscape gradually changed as they crossed a swamp, grassy fields, and finally a river before a compound came into view. Jumper immediately noticed it was laser-fenced. Behind the fence line, a vast complex of huge greenhouses stretched to the northern horizon. Those must be the agritents.
“Wow,” Jumper said. “Look at this place. It’s like a military base.”
“This is the southern boundary,” Hol4 said, finally looking up. “It’s fenced and patrolled. If they spent half the energy helping us in the tents as they do keeping us penned up, food production would p
