"Or we can just talk," he suggested. Sarah's eyes just glimmered. They talked for awhile about each other sitting on the curb when James decided to get up.
"Where are you going?" Sarah asked. James looked out ahead to a river that connected the town to the field where Sarah's camp was.
"Wanna go cross the river?" The boy pointed at. Sarah looked at him like he was stupid. Did he mean swim across? She was in no mood for that. She had no choice to ask.
"How?" she wondered desperately. As they approached the river, she could clearly now see that there was some kind of hard stuff that would support them. James told her that he had done this quite often to go back and forth to the wars to spy and investigate.
He took the first step with her right behind. As they were about to finish crossing, James spun around. "It's simple," he said. Sarah looked at him amazed. Than, she noticed something. Droplets of water were falling on James. It wasn't rain...what could it be? She looked up above James' head and stared in horror. Weakly, he followed her gaze and gasped. Then he screamed. "CROCODILE!!!!!!!"
The two kids turned around to spin. These weren't rocks they were walking on, the were crocodiles! Sarah found a branch and clung onto it before she climbed up on it. "What about me?!?!" she screeched. James kept hoping around and avoiding the hungry reptiles.
"I'll distract them! RUN!!!" he planned. Sarah looked around frantically, then her eyes pin pointed the hill. She had to jump for her life...so she did. There, was a tiny branch that she got a hold of. As she got to the top of the hill, she heard a splash down below. There was no sign of James!
Just down, something grabbed her feet. "James!" she shouted excitedly. They both pulled their way up and got away. "You're alive...but you're soaking wet." James gave a weak smile and giggled.
"We showed them we're to strong," he told her. Yet again, she looked amazed.
"You're sooo brave," Sarah praised. Than, she realized something. "For an American". James followed her as they got onto dry land and they both collapsed. They were strong, but it was tough! "Even so, you're pretty cool."
"Heh thanks, you're pretty and cool too!" James replied shyly. Someone had had enough.The two were interupted by a man on a horse coming from behind them, it was George Washington. Than, from behind Sarah, another man on a horse leaped up infront, it was General Phillips.
"Leave her alone! Back off," he warned. The general looked at James. "Get the boy out of here as well." George Washington told James to get on his horse.
"Ah, General Phillips. Long time, no see. Obviously you haven't seen that this young patriot can do whatever he wishes. It's a free country after all," he told the general. The general snorted in reply. That was a dismiss. They two men took the child on their side and headed off in oposite directions.