“Where are they?” I asked the man, starting to panic. “Did you take Damien’s family and Basin’s family or just us? Didn’t my female offspring send someone for Rose’s family and mine?”

“The slavers,” Thom spat out, “were offered safety in our camp. They are being transported separately. Hannah and Kennedy are well respected or such a request would never have been honored.”

I stared at the man in the dim half light of the tunnels. He had referred to our men as “slavers” and I had that sinking feeling again Free men would view men like Damien and his Brothers as no better than the women.

“I am free with Damien and his Brothers,” I said quickly taking a step toward Thom.

Angela’s Library

I was not a slave and made

flashed, “They told you this? They told you one day you were

“they said I was family and not a slave. Damien and his Brothers decided on their own that slavery was wrong. I asked to be free and they made me

slightly menacing. “They told you what you would be and you accepted it. It

and women is a choice. I don’t think you ever had the option of choosing another family. You were told where you belonged. This is no different from

them. It wasn’t Like I had been offered the choice of Damien’s family, it was just the only

Ruth,” Thom said, “it is still

Lift the canteen to her lips and take a tentative sip, then a couple of gulps. She Looked amazed as she handed me

and I rode hand in hand, silently for the most part. I wasn’t sure what to say. Freedom from Nu-reeh had been such an overriding goal, I hadn’t stopped to think what problems may

to me that my men would

on my face when Light suddenly shone ahead of us. We passed out our narrow passage into a Larger cave. There appeared to be a flat, black lake with a large circular island in the middle. A series of big camp fires lit the island and surrounding area.

the beach were several transports Like ours. I saw men milling around passing in and out of the

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