“Just promise us you will be careful with whoever they send,” Evan begged.


    Don’t do anything to anger them,” Kein said softly. “You are family to us,” Damien said sounding


    worried. “If they treat you with disrespect, say our names and tell them you are family to us.”


    I smiled at all of them and promised sincerely to be very careful and to not make any mistakes.


    The next day passed slowly at the Keepers, as did the one after. Hannah had not been able to tell us


    exactly the day she would take us. We had just been instructed to stay ready.


    “We shouldn’t swim,” Rose had said quietly to Basin on the first day. “If they came and we were in the


    water…”


    Damien and Basin agreed with her. They told the ve Keepers we were not to swim again until they


    cleared it. I was ted Damien was allowing the escape to happen.


    Instead of swimming, Rose and I sat on the beach with Fuji in the afternoons.


    “We wish you coulde with us,” Rose had whispered to her as we sat on the beach several days


    into our vigil, but Fuji wasn’t bothered.


    Her men didn’t have any desire to change their lives. They were perfectly happy here, so she was also.


    Their happiness was her only measure. She was a mirror of their thoughts and wishes.


    “You three,” a Keeper announced suddenly from beside us, e with me.”


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    Looking up I saw one of our Keepers with two men I did not recognize. The two men were well armed.


    Their clothing was different from Warriors in thepound or the shopkeepers in the vige. They


    looked rugged with thick vests and shirts patched many times.


    We stood and followed the three men up the sandy incline and through the room for dancing and


    rxation. They kept walking and we went though the room we worked in during the morning.


    We were led out into the bright sunlight toward the entrance to thispound. Several men stood


    around. Rose and Fuji both looked down. I did, too. Without Damien here to defend my rights, I felt it


    best to follow the flow.


    “Thank you, Keeper,” I heard an unfamiliar voice say, “we will take these beings off your hands.”


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    “Just give me back my Brothers unharmed!” the Keeper demanded fiercely and I looked up.


    The Keeper’s family was all on their knees with swords at their throats. The family that held them


    Looked as mean and dangerous as any I’d ever seen. A second family was doing the talking.


    “Come, Rachel,” a man said as he reached out to grab my arm, “bring your friends and we must be


    gone. Hannah sent us.”


    The man grabbing me Looked rough. His brown hair was cut short, but you could see several days


    worth of scruff on his face. The hand wrapped around my arm was calloused and dirty.


    “Only Rose and I go,” I stated resisting him a Little.


    “Fuji, the cool one, she stays.”


    “No, she doesn’t,” he informed me pulling harder.


    “She knows too much and would be tortured for it.”