“We had to do that about once a week,” he shrugged, “and I got to where I couldn’t stand the sight of another ugly bug! But between that and what we managed to steal from the other ship, we didn’t go hungry once.”
After half the vines were stretched down the beach about six inches apart, Esther chose another one from the remaining pile, and laid it horizontally across them. “Do you know how to make square knots?” she demanded of the curious teens. “No? Then you’re about to learn.
“This will be the left edge of the net. We need to tie every long piece to it, nice and tight. We’ll reinforce it later, to make sure nothing shifts position. But for now, this is what you do.”
They watched as all four adults knotted the long vines to the horizontal one in a classic over-and-under pattern. “Mak
