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.”

sling and she lay on top of it.

and get as far away

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 here.

took them deep into the center of the mountain. It appeared that the men were actually going to walk beneath the mountains in a hidden tunnel. Strange, but then these mines may be many generations old. Who knew what strange passages

must have done. The 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

of the sun,

stumbled hearing that and the men started to look alert. In terror I clung to my silent child and

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

around, but would

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