“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

a slave and made me family one night

you this? They told you one day you were

a slave. Damien and his Brothers decided on their own that slavery was wrong. I asked to be free and they

sounding slightly menacing. “They told you what you would be and you accepted it. It doesn’t sound to me as

women is a choice. I

cut deep for some reason. Probably because there was a measure of truth in them. It wasn’t Like

is still a

a tentative sip, then a couple of gulps. She Looked amazed as she handed me back the container. This had been a first on this planet for

friend and I rode hand in hand, silently for the most part. I wasn’t sure what to say. Freedom from Nu-reeh had

that my men

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

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

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