Illegally Home
In a far away land called Zreon, a wee babe named Midnight, was running around with all of his siblings and cousins on their family farm. Laughter and excited yelling could be heard for miles as all of the young creatures played tag. Midnight looked out across the yard to see his parents in the field struggling to plant that year's peanut crops. The ground was so dry and hard that every time they hit the soil it sounded as if they were hitting stone. There had not been rain for over two months. The local river needed to be rerouted but there were not enough Zreonians to complete such a large task. The adults came home every day exhausted and dropped into bed. Midnight felt terrible seeing his parents so tired, though he did not know how to help them. He tried to assist them in the field but that turned disastrous when his stomach started to rumble and instead of planting the seeds he started to eat all of them. What a scolding and a stomach ache he got for that. With deep worry he...