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Swimming
Chapter 3
Swimming
After an hour or so, the captain announced that they needed to do some hunting. Victor picked up a bow and quiver and asked if they were going alone.
"Hunting is normally done in parties of four," came the reply, "but I could see how two could play into the apprenticeship." They left and told Ian on the way out of camp that the captain was taking Victor out hunting.
They had barely gotten out of camp when Victor whispered to the captain, "You are making too much noise. Stay still for five minutes." It was then that the captain realized he could not hear Victor’s footsteps. Before he could say not to, the boy had vanished. The captain sat down an
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