CHAPTER FIVE
Beams allowed the tribesmen—who identified themselves as Ariopolitans—to bind him, Shade, and Mr. Space as they made their journey down to the city. This was to show to the Ariopolitans that he and his friends weren’t dangerous, though he found the rope tied around his wrists very tight and rough. It didn’t help that the Ariopolitans forced him and his friends to keep walking, poking them in the back with their spears every now and then to make sure they kept moving.
Beams expected them to take the cliff pathway which Mr. Space had pointed out earlier, but instead, the Ariopolitans led them through a secret underground tunnel, its entrance hidden underneath a thick layer of snow not too far from where the edge of the cliff. They went down a secret underground staircase/tunne
