Chapter two As we settled into the barracks I began to feel extremely uncomfortable my skin having been dried by the cool night air had turned from its lovely white towards a pale blue and the cold of the night sky had left me feeling cold for the first time in my life as we were herded into a squat square building through a cloth witch acted as the door. With us huddled into the interior of the building we saw the light outside begin to grow as one by one the newcomers left out of the door way with eventually even the leading one leaving us alone. We where all inside the large building which was broken up into the area we where standing witch was a long strip of the building separated from the rest by a bar/tabletop running across the entirety of the room. One the other side of the bar there where about ten rows of shelving stretching up 3 m towards the ceiling and separated by about two metres from each other. The shelves each contained piles and bundles of throwing spears, long spears, bows, arrows short swords , daggers, shields, slingshots and stones for them, blow pipes and darts, there must have been enough swords alone to outfit a thousand skinks. We waited there for a long time until eventually we saw another newcomer coming in through a passage way that we could not see and he was different to all those before him, whilst they had been fit, strong and had dark blue scales he relatively flabby and it seemed as if his skin had a green tint to it rather then the blue of the of the other new comers. He was also smaller much closer to us me in size and the largest one of us was already his size. He reached up to one of the shelves and brought in bunches daggers made from teeth and after that he brought bunches of holders and short throwing spears all of which he laid on the bar in front of us. Leaping over the bar he picked up a dagger and said "dagger" and then repeated it with the holders and three spears. Giving each of us a holder which was slung over are backs so that the spears would go along are backs and a dagger which he placed into are hands he moved those he had done to one side of the room and out though the door we had entered. As I was sent out the door way I saw that the sun had risen and it was morning the light whilst something I had seen from my pool caused my eyes to water as they adjusted to the bright light. I saw for the first time what the outside world looked like. The bright sunlight gleamed of the slabs of the plaza we were standing on, it was massive in size about a kilometre across to where a gigantic pyramid rose into the sky it's surface inclined but broken up into 4 levels and on the top one there was a small( gazebo) which dominated the top of the pyramid. To the right of where we stood I saw a number of rows of smaller squat buildings stretching as far as the eye could see(before the expedition the city had a population of about 260,000 skinks and around 25,000 Saurus and a few hundred kroxigor) to are left we saw the spawning pools we had come from and i recognised the tree over are one, I shocked to see there were more than a dozen of the spawning pools and that we where from one of the smallest. Behind us there where rows of armouries and the one we had gone into was also the smallest. At the time I wasn't that impressed as this was the first city I had ever seen and as such I took it as normal. What I saw though after taking this in was that across from my group was a huge group of skinks I could not guess there numbers as they stretched into the distance but there front rank was around 40 wide they carried bows over there shoulders and had quivers over there backs. I saw there were about 5 skinks standing in front of there unit each one had a bright headdress of red fern leaves. Once all of us had our spears and daggers the leaders in front there unit called out names and six skinks walked out of the massed unit to stand in front of us then each one took nine of us with them and split us up into six groups. I saw that my group had a skink with a impressive spine of needles along his back and he seemed fairly large compared to those he had come out of. Due to the numbers of my group and that I had been one of the last ones outside I was placed into the only group of seven. I saw I had also been placed with the skink who had been nervous around the priests. The leader if are group pointed at himself and said " I am frokihe " in a deep voice and taking us one by one he named us.