7 DUMML-DEE Out in the forest just a mile or two outside Gorak city, are a row of trees that house the Fraks. Fraks are small people of about three-foot-tall, fat and round in shape. They have no necks, just heads that swivel and sit on their bodies. Fraks live simple lives. They build their modest homes inside the tree trunks, harvest berries from the trees above, which are the main ingredient for every kind of food and drink they make. All the men from the age of sixteen, have to go into the city to work in the plastics mine to pay the very high taxes on their homes. If the taxes are not paid, the Imperial Army takes the head of the household to jail, where he sits in a cell for five years. So out of the thirty-five-hour day, twenty-two of them are spent working. The Gorags are tal

