“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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a slave and made me family one night ‘long

you this? They told you one day you

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

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

“You cannot make someone family, Rachel. Family between men and women is a choice. I don’t think

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 was

Ruth,” Thom said, “it is still a Long ride

the canteen to her lips and take a tentative sip, then a couple of gulps. She Looked

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

that my men would be

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

transports Like ours. I saw men milling around passing

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