“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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and made me family one night ‘long

told you this? They told you one day

and his Brothers decided on their own that slavery was wrong.

decision, was it?” Thom asked lowering his voice and sounding slightly menacing. “They told you what you would be and you accepted it. It doesn’t sound to me

Rachel. Family between men and women is a choice. I don’t think you ever had the option of choosing another family. You were

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

said, “it is still

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

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 lie

occurred to me that my men would

black lake with a large 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 spokes running off from

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

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