Pay now or fill me up?

He knew I wouldn’t stop trekking alone and he wanted me to have protection and a means to hunt for my food. What wasn’t normal was the standing military guard with a combat assault rifle held easily across his chest. XXX “I never saw anything like that. But, there were no windows here. “We didn’t use rabbits.”
Conflicting or misunderstood orders, perhaps, but suddenly they were both moving to the chamber. The truth was that where I stood was about 40 feet above the original ground surface. “I never saw anything like that. Then … there was brilliant, blinding white. What really got their attention from the moment I got off the elevator was what else I was carrying over my shoulder: a classic style bow and a quiver of arrows, not