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be edible in the desert. He attempts to dig up a root which has put forth a few stems however finding the ground to be "iron hard" (70) he goes off for a spade to dig it up with. When he comes back, however, he finds a hole with the root lying at the bottom of it. The others find him with the root and ask what happened. They dismiss his conjecture that an invisible animal dug the hole and tell him that he only got confused and went to a different place the second time. They use a sword to cut the root, which they call a "moon melon", find out that the inside smells strongly like rotting vegetation. Scumble, who is the only person willing to try it, finds it to be cooling and refreshing. The others are disgusted and refuse to eat the moon melon. While the others are busy, Scumble scrapes around the base of every moon melon plant between the hole and the tunnel. Before going to sleep, the New Heroes roll the boulder back across the entrance to the tunnel. The next morning, the five line up to push the boulder away from the entrance and push it and themselves out into space.
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