Sinbad (4)

Sinbad (4)


" I can hear voices, " cried Sinbad in delight.
" Someone is here to rescue me. "

The boy looked up and saw faces peering over the edge of the cliffs.

Men were throuwing something onto the rocks below.

Could it be huge pieces of meat ?

At once, Sinbad understood what was happening.

These men threw lumps of meat onto the diamonds near the snakes, then the mountain eagles would swoop down, grab the meat, and carry it back to their nests.

Sometimes a few of diamonds would stick to the meat, and then the men would grab the gems from the eagle's nests.

Sinbad waited for the biggest bird to swoop down.
He grabbed the largest diamond he could find and clung onto the bird's legs with all his might.

And that is how our adventurer, Sinbad, escaped the snakes.
And that is how he came to be sitting in an eagle's nest with the beggest diamond of them all.

(4/10)