The tops of the drums were shaped like three small bongos. I tapped on them experimentally until I had a good rhythm going.

Playing these little drums was complicated, but I Loved music. The only part of high school I liked was band class. The pitch each drum made was different and that took some getting used to. I got engrossed in what I was doing. I looked up to see Fuji swiveling her hips to the beat. I spent the rest of the morning tapping out different beats on the drums while the girls danced.

A bell rang suddenly and everything stopped. Fuji started to run out.

She turned around abruptly grabbing my hand and pulling me with her.

“Where are we going?” I asked her trying to keep up.

“Our Masters are coming to feed us, they don’t like to wait,” she said.

I noticed my owner’s mark on the floor in the room she took us into. A kneeling place was set up in front of it. A chair and a small table were in front of me. I followed Fuji’s lead and kneeled down waiting, no one was talking.

come in. A set stopped

as he brushed my cheek. I looked up at him and

fed me from a bowl until

he stopped feeding

Laughed quietly in my ear. “Follow

out the door in the wall. le’re outside the Keeper’s compound, Ciara. You can look around if you’d like to, none of the other Warriors

we allowed to be out here, Christof?” I asked

would have considered a forest at home, along a little

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come and feed their slave a mid day meal. I thought you might be curious to see outside

to see this,” I said inspecting a bright yellow leaf growing

also,” he told

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