It had been a long winter, so far, for Ted Wagner. He spent most of his time hunting for something edible for the rest of the residents of the cave. He had tried for a deer just before the first snowfall and managed it, but since, there had been nothing. He managed to drop a couple of wolves, though, but most of the people had not liked it. Most, including Ted, felt they were eating someone’s dog
“Eat it or not, it’s all there is,” Raymond Tutt said to the complainers. “Better yet, you can go out and find something else. Ted is doing his best.”
The followers of Raymond Tutt had been those who had followed Emily Brooks and Keith Rogers to the huge cave a couple of miles from the river. They were also the majority of the metal workers. They had brought most of the smelting and metal workin
