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elbowed me. He pointed towards the tower and whispered, “look, over there.” I looked and saw a bedraggled figure tied to it. I barely recognized Princess Starshine. Her hair was greasy and disarrayed, covering her face. Her clothes were in shambles and her body covered in bruises. She appeared to be the only of her party left alive. The rest of the clearing was mostly empty. The building of the oil facility had long ago fallen into rusted piles. The tower was the only intact structure. There was also a pile of rusting cars and trucks on the opposite side of the clearing at the base of some hills. Franklin elbowed me again. I looked at him and he motioned in the direction from which we had come. I followed the others back to our bikes. There Wolf outlined the attack plan. I was to go with Franklin and three others back to the edge of the clearing and wait while the others broke into two groups and positioned themselves for the attack on other sides of the clearing.
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