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.”

she lay on top of it. That was the perfect hiding place.

After thebust outI should leave and get as

was a place I’d walked infrequently before. It was boring and deep inside the mountain. Hannah and Ra were right. It would not

escape route the men should take was clearly 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 in a

have done. The women

five turns of the sun, if not

to my silent child and slunk into the shadows of the cave. I barely breathed until the men started to

Angela’s Library

I wondered how I was supposed to get in. Standing and staring at the drape for several moments I realized no one went out or came in. The family standing

but would they see the

really only one way to

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