“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.

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slave and made me family one night

“They told you this? They told you one day you were family

his Brothers decided on

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

Rachel. Family between men 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

cut deep for some reason. Probably because there was a measure of truth in them. It wasn’t Like I had been offered the choice of Damien’s family, it

Ruth,” Thom said, “it is still

to finally Lift the canteen to her lips and take a tentative sip, then a couple of gulps. She Looked amazed as she handed me back the container. This had been a first

what to say. Freedom from Nu-reeh had been such an overriding

had occurred to me that my

circular island in the middle. A series of big camp fires lit the island and surrounding area. In the dim Light I could see small openings all around the lake. It was like a hub with

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

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