“You look terrible, Mama. I’m so sorry,” Hannah cried burying her face in my neck, “I couldn’t make it stop.”

“I thought of you every day,” I told her honestly.

“Thinking of you as a happy, healthy girl out exploring the world made me feel good. It still does. Damien and his Brothers will care for me now. You have to go. Don’t let them catch you here,” I said suddenly afraid if the other women saw her.

“Who cares what they want,” Hannah said not releasing me.

“I’d rather die here with you than be off having a fun time while they hurt you.”

“It was fun?” I asked stroking her back. “Tell me what you did, what you saw.”

for. Despite my desire

held each other and Hannah told me what she had been doing. I understood North, South, East, and West, so she used those directions to describe where she had been. She’d travelled to the nearest mountain range to the West, the one the men called the red mountains. The real name was the T’ylene

trip had been the one

planet is too dangerous for them. The equator is safe and temperate. In the North women live and work

“Like an

you did at home. I think a year is Longer here than on

track everything they can, including me. The women knew I would be coming before I got there. I am ‘Hannah, from the T’stan mountains, Nu-reeh’s

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know what to say to that and she

computers, Mama, but not like on Earth. The computers are living things. The

as we sat down next to each other. “So this

mountain homes they Lived in, they

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