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Song of Drums
Drama

Song of Drums

Drama

Child soldiers kidnapped from tribes. The thread is they had drum circles everyone in their village was part of each week. They hear it in their dreams. Older soldiers kill the "useless" children in front of the others as examples. This ...See moreChild soldiers kidnapped from tribes. The thread is they had drum circles everyone in their village was part of each week. They hear it in their dreams. Older soldiers kill the "useless" children in front of the others as examples. This child, given a number instead of a name, cooperates, manipulates, cultivates his own army quietly, as the children outnumber adults 10-1, but are too terrified to plan. #113 is cunning beyond his years. He capitulates, obeys, but secretly teaches others hand signals, how to aim and strike their targets, levels out their gun sights for accuracy and plans a date to kill the adults at night. They spy and discover the weapon storage and gain access by lifting a drunk soldiers keys. Guns will wake the soldiers, so those are last resort. They steal knives, machetes, axes when they can for quieter deaths, slowly , one by one. No one notices. They each find a piece of wood, broken wood buckets, log or sticks. Their sleeping quarters are surrounded by electrical barbed wire and far from the adults. At night they drum, each from their own village. They whisper plans as they drum. Assignments are given by 113. Some dig and hide the hole under the fence. Everyone contributes a meal a day from a can for later. They take turns hiding water they're given in animal hides, like ages ago. They take scraps of clothing to use for thread to sew the animal skins into water containers, coating this inside seems with a resin produced by a local plant that seals leaks and wounds. Their day is planned. They know the system and signs of when they'll be walking the mine fields to be used to detonate the mines. They drum that night. They howl and growl and are ready. If not, many will die. Their supplies of food, water, blades, guns and ammo cleverly split up and buried in 3 places near the back of their hut. The night comes. Everyone has their assignment. Some will kill in pairs of 2. Some are backup with guns, some must dig up and move the food and water to a location in the jungle they all know. They make torches with sticks, rages and oil for those that must get the food and supplies out, to light the way once out of site. They don't know there are 3 spies among the nearly 50 of them. 113 has planned for this tho. He knew it was likely. They're just children after all. How many could be so brave? He planted 2 very frightened acting children as counter spies to gather info. These children are not frightened, just good actors. 3 nights earlier than anyone but the spies knew, they act on their plan, first thing and gagging the spies. They're dragged it the jungle. The supplies are heavy, but must not be dragged or dropped. One of the burlap bags breaks, but a child sees it and quickly puts it down before anything falls. One of the boys is too tall and gangly to get through the tunnel. He's stuck. 113 uses a hollow tube like plant. He gives one dirty end to the boy for him to breathe, the other end is barely noticeable just a couple inches above ground. He gives the boy a hide of water and buries him with as little dirt needs to conceal the hole. The boys promise they'll return before morning when all is done. The buried boy tries to sleep, keeping the tube stem in his mouth. Morning comes and goes. The boy can see the sun straight above through a tiny slit around the air hole. All is quiet. What happened? Shooting erupts. Something has gone terribly wrong with the plan. Screaming, running, shooting, dying. He can do nothing but listen to the horror. Written by kjerstihfrancis See less

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