"Jesus Christ!," said Samantha after John had left to get her the food. "How could they not know I'm still up here? Why didn't they email me?"

She pulled out her laptop. It was then she discovered that she couldn't connect to wireless. She was happy she'd brought several books up there with her and had spent so much of her time writing the story of her time in the tree.

Nevertheless, she gave the tree one good kick in frustration. "Stupid tree!" she muttered.