By John Christopher
In the past, the Tripods large, three-legged machines descended upon Earth and took keep watch over. Now humans unquestioningly settle for the Tripods' energy. they've got no regulate over their strategies or their lives.
But for a quick time in each one persson's lifestyles in adolescence he isn't a slave. For Will his time of freedom is ready to finish until he can get away to the White Mountains, the place the potential for freedom nonetheless exists.
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I put my hand out to shake him and noticed something as I did so: he had looped the strap of my pack round his arm, so that I could not have taken it without disturbing him. The possibility had occurred to him, too! He woke at my touch. We had the rest of the loaf and a shank of ham before moving off. The trees were dense, and we did not see much of the sly until we came out I realized then that the gloom was not simply due to the near approach of night; it had clouded over while we slept, and I felt an occasional heavy drop of lain on my bare arms and face.
Turned left, walked a hundred yards, and there was a road to the right Fol* lowing it would take us out of town. A quarter of an hour, and we could relax our vigilance, if only slightly. What we had, though, was something like a quarter of a minute. A road ran alongside the harbor wall and on the far side of it there was a row of houses. taller and seemingly narrower than those in Rumney. As Henry and I moved across the entrance to the hard, a door opened across the way. and a man came out Apparently seeing us.
It did not make much difference, I thought bitterly. I was back in the minority again. We made our way up through the tunnels, and I was very glad to see the sky, even though it was a still darker gray, with clouds lower and more menacing. Not long atterward our way The City of the Ancients / 99 was barred by a river, running clear and swift between high banks. There had been many great bridges spanning it, but those we could see had been partly or altogether destroyed; the one directly before us was marked only by half a dozen piles of rubble with the water boiling round Page 62 them.