Mungus: Book 1 (29 page)

             
Besides school, though, I had little to do.  There were no people on the ship who were my age because all of them were forced in to signing the contracts.  I was the youngest person on the ship by seven years.  I spent a good amount of my time in the auditorium, watching old baseball games on the big screen and remembering how I used to be annoyed at Saul dragging me there.  I missed him.

             
At night I would sneak out, climb over the counter and scale the ladder to the projection room behind the auditorium.  I sat in the room where Saul, Blaine and I had first heard about Mungus.  I wished that the Greco ship had never made it.  I felt like a ghost, wandering the halls at night.  I looked out at the planet, glowing in blue, green, and white and I thought about when Saul told me that he was going back to Glen’s farm to try to sneak people out.  The more I thought about that statement in my mind, testing it and running it over, the more convinced I was that it was the noblest thing that I had ever heard.  Saul had been a good person, and if more people wanted to help then maybe Ramus could be brought down.  As I watched the clouds glide over the planet I vowed to become one of those people and to try to save as many as possible.  It was a promise that I wouldn’t break.

Hello Reader,

             
I hope that you have enjoyed Mungus. I wrote this novel over the course of 10 months in 2011: This was my third novel to write, and my first that I was proud of.

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