Kennedy was staring up at me. I saw the determination in her features, as well as the uncertainty. She wasn’t afraid and she wanted to proceed, but she knew I was fearful.

Either choice I made may fail my children. If I did not help, I was weak and ineffective. Should Nu-reeh catch me, she might kill me, but I decided for the first time to fight back. My children should see the same strength in me that they embodied.

“I don’t know where they are,”I whispered to Hannah.

Ra handed me a map. I should give it to the men once they were free. It would lead me to them and then them out. A strange device was given to me that would unlock any Lock. Hannah showed me how to use it. Lastly they gave me fifteen wrapped pieces of food, each the size of acandy bar.

“It is called something that means ‘power of a thousand suns’,” Hannah told me.

“It’s a little Like…probablycocainein anenergy bar,but it will give the men strength long enough to get out.”

in Kennedy’s sling and she lay on top of it. That was the perfect hiding place.

did Hannah. After thebust outI should leave and

Kennedy. The map showed right where the men were. It was a place I’d walked infrequently before. It was boring and deep inside the mountain. Hannah and Ra were right. It would not be hard for me to avoid the cameras

marked out. Surprisingly it took them deep into the center of the mountain. It appeared that the men were actually going to walk beneath the mountains

women weren’t even feeding these prisoners. The women taunted them with a bucket of water they could not reach. The strange mouth-guards they wore prevented the prisoners from even

turns of the sun, if not sooner,”

alert. In terror I clung to my silent child and slunk into the shadows

Angela’s Library

guard at a leather drape. This was where the captured men were held. I wondered how I was supposed to get in. Standing and staring at the drape

men didn’t see me walking around, but would they

one

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