Life hAd bEen difficult for Kieran and now he found himself a slave with negligible rights. He was set to work in the carpenter shed, but was given few instructions. The plane was blunt but there seemed to be no sharpening stone there. He improvised with bits of shale he found and at last was able to make a pretty descent job of smoothing the wood he'd been given to work with. Lunchtime was short but Kieran was able to sit in a shady glade to eat the food that was brought to him. By keeping the blade of the plane sharpened he produced a lovely piece of furniture at just the right scale. His owner was very impressed, not only with Kieran's skill but his courteous manner. He felt he could trust him to deliver the furniture to the nearby penal colony, figuring he would be unlikely to try to escape there! His owner did get anxious when there was a delay before Kieran's return, but it transpired that there had been an emergency at the colony and everything was taking longer to process.
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