Chapter 56 Inspiration From A Pot

• The next few days, under my orders, no one left the cave.
• I smeared the cow oil all over the small cave that connected the main cave and the outside world so that it was unbearably slippery. Unless someone let down a rope ladder, not even I could scale the wall now.
• We designed a signal to indicate when the rope ladder should be let down. We agreed on making three long knocks followed by seven short bursts by striking the rock. If the signal was not made, no one was to be let up, not even me.