We talked from night until dawn. When early morning came, Pollard went to look for a phone from the villagers.

At about noon, he returned, forlorn and empty handed. He told us, "It seems some police officers are coming up here. You can see for yourselves."

Everyone was enthusiastic at the news, but Naomi immediately became wary. "Why the sudden visit?"

Momentarily stunned, Pollard replied, "Rumor has it that they came to look for some people, but I don't know the details. Why don't you have a look?"

They were looking for people?

We all shared a look, suddenly suspicious of this turn of events. Would they come this far to look for us?

Taking into account the many mountains we'd climbed and the many paths we'd walked the past few days, we were so far off from where we started. Weren't they wary of ringing any alarm bells if they made it too obvious that they were really trying to find us?

"What's wrong?" Pollard asked, confused, sensing how anxious we were.

up any trouble for him, so our replies were instantaneous. "It's

careful. Worst case scenario, we can still

nodded in agreement. It was the

we said our goodbyes to Pollard

could leave, however, we heard the sounds of trampling footsteps

on the

I glanced at Naomi, and

it was almost impossible for him to

us found out that Pollard had taken us in, they would definitely hurt both Pollard

the yard, all

expression darkened when

more taken aback than

and said something. We could not

speak his language. He turned to look

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