[sO fReAkIn oDd]

A distant voice spoke as I slept.

"Why hello Ben."

I opened my eyes. A blinding white light hit me, I squinted. I was in a white room.

"Where am I?" I asked.

"You are inside your mind Ben, and I thought that I would pay a visit. You have done very well and I wanted to thank you in person."

The voice seemed different.

"Sujalin?" I asked.

"Ben, you have done so much for your people and asked nothing in return. You are the greatest hero your people know, you have surpassed Abe."

I was puzzled.

"No, I didn't. Without Abe, I couldn't have done anything!" He laughed.

"Oh Ben, you will see what I mean, you've had a long day and you should rest. But I will say this as best I can," He cleared his throat, "You have the deepest gratitude and the greatest thanks that has ever been recieved by anyone ever. But for now Ben, rest."

I felt myself become tired and I drifted into a sleep.

I slept for a very long time..............when in a quiet voice I hear,


"Uhhh hey ya fellow chump, wake up!" I snorted and popped awake.

"Abe?" I asked. He smiled at me.

"Come on Ben, we can't be late." I was still half asleep. He yanked me up and dragged up and out of bed. I wasn't sleeping in the ship but instead I was sleeping in a small hut out iun the woods. Abe dragged me out of the front door of my hut and throught the woods for about a minute. After sprinting while still half asleep we reached a large wooden hut with a sign on top of it. He kicked the doors open. "HEY YA EVERYBODY!" shouted Abe, "Look who I brought!"

A cheer rang out among the muds inside. A hand slapped my back and an unfamiliar voice said,

"Welcome to Alf's Rehab and Tea, I'm Alf! What can I get for ya?" A very cheerful mud put his arm around my shoulder and walked me over to a table.

"I guess I'll have a Tea." He laughed, he was a very perky guy.

"Of course you will! That's all we serve." He laughed and poured me a bubbling hot brown cup of Mudokon Herbal Tea. I took a sip,

*OUCH*

It was still hot, I blew on it and then resumed drinking. I immediately perked up and smiled. I could feel the tea make me feel better as I drank.

"Hey Ben!" Abe shouted from on a stage at the end of the room, "Come on up here." He waved me over.

I walked on over and stood next to Abe. I gave a stare out into the mudokon crowd, it wasn't all 1,000 but there were sure a lot of muds there. Abe whispered, "Say something, they turn on ya real fast if ya don't talk." His words kinda suprised me,

*SNORK*

I kinda snorted and coughed at the same time. I recieved some blank stares from the crowd. I cleared my throat after the embarassing moment.

"Uhhh, I'm not very good at speeches, and I don't have much to say. What I did was what anyone of you would have done for me. You are all my brothers and we all look out for each other, I would be nowhere without you. But we have just started to fight back against the Magog, I will need every single one of you to help further the effort and help save the rest of our siblings. I know that there has to be more than 1,399 mudokons on Mudos, and we gotta find em." A slow pause, a single clap, a couple claps, everyone clapping.

Abe clapped and then leaned over and whispered, "You spoke just in time, I thought they were about to rush the stage in a blind rage!" I kinda had a laugh at Abe's apparent lack of understanding about moods.

All of the sudden, in a mechanical clamor, Shrink rushed in and seemed to be in a big hurry.

"Oh boy, what now?" I said to myself.

...........to be continued......