"Thanks … I owe you one," Jamin said. "You can have my seat on the way home."
The sky canoe began to shudder as the pilots lit the fires in the engines, twin devices Jamin could only comprehend as stoking up a fire in an enormous oven.
'Prepare for lift off,' a voice said via the magic speaker box.
Jamin gripped his safety harness and hoped he didn't hurl. The noise from the engines became almost deafening, and then the entire vessel lurched upwards. He chuckled, more to distract himself from the sensation of terror within his gut, but with that fear had come a new emotion lately. Exhilaration.
His thoughts turned to what it would take to convince the lizard people to bring him with them when they left. The flatscreen tutor told him everything he wanted to know about Earth and lots of
