Chapter 31

The argument still continued. After hours of arguments, Rena stood up angrily.

" Why?" She said. She held up the book princess Diana had been trying to teach her to read. "Can't eat the book! Why did I have to disturb myself to learn something that won't put food on the table? Food is important and I don't think I am ready to invest my time in such." Rena lamented.

"Come with me," Princess Diana said.

She led her silently down the path from Abasia Kingdom, up to the base of Tribunal Mountain, which loomed over the Kingdom. As they skirted the top of a small cliff above the sea, they reached a large steel door set into the face of the rock.

" I can't tell you everything that is back there," she said. "Honestly, I do not even know. But I can tell you that the smartest people in the Abasia Kingdom all come up here every day and disappear into this mountain. They keep it locked up tight. I mean, let's face it, you do not lock up things that are not valuable, do you?"

Rena stared blank