THE ADVENTURERS GAME

Mary is sorting Shark when other people start talking about George her Eighteen-year-old "Son". George is trying to catch the monstrous "Master of the Sea," a feat done twenty years ago by Mary's husband and George's father, Gary. It is a seemingly impossible condition set by Mary, for she is reluctant to allow George to take the Adventure Exam. George catches the shark and brings it to the harbor, to the amazement of the townspeople and to the dismay of Mary. The night before George sets out, Mary tries to convince George not to pursue the exam and become like his father. George replies by saying he wants to know why his father prefers to be an Adventurer so much that he left his own son in other People's care. Mary says that it is dangerous, but George insists. The next morning,