I rolled to my side and faced him, “None of that is happening now and I’m not malnourished!” I stated with finality. “She fed me three times a day.”

“Rupe,” Bane said, “she fed you rupe three times a day. It fills your stomach and you will not feel any hunger, but you cannot absorb nutrient from it. Our cousins used it to feed early human…women. They died looking as you do now.”

“Our family does not eat it,” Kein said tracing the line of my hip. “We have never eaten it. The Child Keepers said we could not have it and it is never brought to us. That is why you have never seen it.”

“It was food,” I insisted. “I was just very busy-“

“You – did – not – absorb – any – of – it,” Damien said very slowly. The argument continued until I asked to use the lacquered pot and Damien ushered me to the bathroom. While Damien stood and watched me relieve myself, I used the argument I should not have.

“I’m strong. You should have seen what I did all day. It was really hard work and I’m…” the words died in my throat as the dark look took over Damien’s features.

had wanted that information last night and I had denied him. “Fine,” he said in a low growl, “you are well. We will not treat you as if you are sick. Now

He looked quite satisfied. I had walked right into their

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she did it. I look like a runaway, don’t I? No one will question what happened to

questioned that?” Damien bellowed hitting the wall again. “No one

supposedly ran from the compound during an attack by the women. None of the other Warriors know that Nu-reeh took

had hidden my kidnap in a planned female raid. In the confusion,

men knew none of what I was thinking. They were still looking angrily

as angry as Damien. “No, Brothers, not just me. There are others who like to question,” Christof

started naming off men who would have noticed. They would have been curious how I did so well. Their families would have gotten curious, the questions would have spread over the compound. Even families without a curious Brother might have started to pay

they noticed their Brothers would notice,”

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