Treason: What’s That?
A five-year-old boy desperate for food unknowingly makes a
terrible mistake
Sammy walked along the road. He was kicking a rock. It helped him forget about being hungry, but if this worked, he’d have food. Once, he had tried to eat the grass. Jack told him that the grass had been green before the great and just rebellion. Sammy didn’t believe him. The grass had always been blue.
He squinted. The outline of the Justice Outpost could barely be seen against the mountains. He walked on.
An hour later, he came upon the outpost. Sleek metal and glass it looked a bit strange, a remnant of kinder times, times that, according to Jack, were filled with wondrous machines that flew in the sky or let you talk to someone across the world, which, back then, everyone believed was round.