1. When Joshua Ferral found Finn in the forest, he considered the possibility that the Slavers left him there, but he took him and raised him as his son. If Finn had been discovered by someone else from the village, what other actions might have been taken?

2. One criticism of the story is that the Slavers seem incredibly stupid and relatively easy for Finn to trick and evade. Does this characteristic of the Slavers undermine the credibility of the story, or can it be rationalized using information either directly stated or inferred?

3. Hill does not provide specific details about what took place in the world three hundred years before the story begins. However, he does give some description of what human life was like before the earth was ravaged by fire. Are there human activities taking place in the world today that could be compared...