Astra, Diamond Miner
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 84487
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Seeing Princess Astra was so unexpected that Fred rubbed his eyes, but
there was no mistake. His eyesight was keen and, even high above her as
he was, her face and long red hair - now rather disheveled - were
unmistakeable. She was naked, but even so she was sweating profusely, for
diamond mining was hot work. He saw her muscles flex as she repeatedly
lifted her pickaxe high above her head and struck at the wall. Every so
often, a diamond would be hewn free and would fall at her feet, and she
would bend to pick it up and place it in the large basket beside her. To
prevent escape, her ankle was attached to a long chain which was fastened
to the rock wall at a point some ten feet above the cave floor, in other
words too high up for her to be able to free it with the pickaxe (and the
metal links of the chain were too strong to be broken).
"Astra!" Fred called, as he began his descent of the ladder. "Fred! Oh the shame that you should see me reduced to being the dragon's slave." "You won't be his slave much longer. If you climb up on my shoulders, you can reach the point where the chain is attached to the wall and get it free."
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JH
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