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Camel Rider
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Camel Rider (edit title/settings)

by Prue Mason (Author) (edit contributors)

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Adam and his family live comfortably in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. When war breaks out and all foreigners try to escape, Adam runs away in an effort to save his dog, which has been left behind. Alone and without resources in the desert, Adam meets Walid, an... read more

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Part One-Adam
Adam lives in a compound on the outskirts of a Middle-Eastren city called Abudai. He has everything he wants and needs. He has a nice house, has lots of money and he get a good education. Their is one thing Adam doesn't like, "Going to bording school back in Australia."... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Part One-Adam
Adam lives in a compound on the outskirts of a Middle-Eastren city called Abudai. He has everything he wants and needs. He has a nice house, has lots of money and he get a good education. Their is one thing Adam doesn't like, "Going to bording school back in Australia."
The day before he was going back to Australia he slipped his passport into his Dad's work bag before his Dad (who is a commercial pilot) left for work. This ment he wouldn't be able to leave the country. When his Mum left the following night for Australia. She was very angry with him.
The next morning he was home with only his housekeeper when suddenly a wave of fight jets flew only meters of his house. They were flying from the direction of the coast and they were heading straight towords a tall skyscraper called the "Centra", when they suddenly drop bomb on it and blow up the top of the tower. Maddness, confussion, the people in the compound are franticly packing their stuff to get into a convoy. To Adam disgust he is forced to go with his next door neighbours who he does really like. They tell him to pack clothes, water and food for the trip ahead. So he packs his laguage, locks the door and walks to his neightbours car with his dog. But, the neightbours don't let him bring his dog. So he had to make the very hard dission to leave his dog behind.
As he left the compound he started to cry about all the thing that has happened to him this morning. As he drives through the dessert he finds out about what happen. The compound convey stops at a Services Station in the middle of the desert. He ask neightbour if you could go in his friends car. His neightbour says he can but to the neightbours unknowly he slips off to the bathroom and waits for the convey to start going so he can walk his way through the desert to save his dog Tara. As the convey go he starts to change his mind until you hears that the only body hear is the attendants in the service station than he starts to cry. He tells himself to stay together and with that he starts he journey home to Tara....

Part 1- Walid
Walid is a Camel Rider from the outskrits Abudai. He moved to Abudai from another country when his father dies. But when his mum and him couldn't afford it here so they decided to move back. But they couldn't afford to move back and Walid mum was forced to give Walid to a Camel riding camp were he had to be a slave and ride camel for food and shelter until his mum can get the money to move back to his home country.

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  • Abudai: A middle-eastern town with oil rigs. It was been influanced by Western cultures.

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  • Sultan Mafi: They're in charge of a small country south of Abudai. They believe that Abudai has become too open to crrupt western influences.

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I should be sleeping, but I'm all tense and nervous.

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  1. Prue Mason (Author)

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Great Bed Time Story!!!

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