Why Is Mesopotamia A Dangerous Place

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Once there was a place called Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia had many people who were all happy. But those people were all dumb and didn’t take care of themselves. They didn’t take care of themselves because they never became adults. The children of Mesopotamia grew old, but never got the mind of an adult. So Mesopotamia was a dangerous place because of this problem.
The kind of Mesopotamia, Logan, had the mind of an adult given to him by a god named Kitty Cat. Logan didn’t like his people and decided he wanted to make all of them smart. So he went off to an adventure to get a spell to make them all grow up. Logan’s first quest was to get to the place where he could get the spell. The place was very far away. There were no horses tamed because

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