Chapter 9 - Chapter 10 Summary

In chapter nine, Jakkin and his friends are at breakfast when the boys begin to give Jakkin a hard time about his evening out. Jakkin is a good sport, but when Slakk accuses him of being with Akki, Jakkin angrily refutes the charge and storms off. Once outside, however, he realizes he must return, in order to tell the bond men about the drakk. Returning to the bondhouse, Jakkin tells Lakkarn and the others of the creature's flight over the nursery. Lakkarn, clearly still furious with Jakkin, takes the other boys to begin their chores and begins locating boys to go on a hunt for the creature. Jakkin goes with Balakk to chart the flight path of the creature. Balakk finds a patch of trees through his eyeglass and plans to begin the hunt there. He tells of men...