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People pass by et her back, too I will do anything to get her back It seems it has become my centennial project I wonder if I will ever just have the people who have beco for one

"Where did they take her?" I ask again

The huge boys hug and rub each other’s hair I want to shout but Will saves me the trouble

He looks around, "Where’s Anna?"

"Hunters got her two days ago She went looking for Ee of the field I couldn’t run They took her in a truck"

"I’m so sorry Jake"

He shakes his head "Emma you went for food after you went for et her back" He looks at Will and smiles It amazes me how much they look alike

"I can’t believe you’re alive ain, "You too little bro You should have died a long tihs, "Anna"

"We need to get her back Jakey"

He nods

I can’t laugh with the is warm and fuzzy

I shove him "So how did you end up here? Why didn’t you stay at the faro after them I went over the hill and broke the branches like you told me I knew you’d findterhs, "I know"

Jake fixes his hair, "Anyway I cas, "I made friends at camp, just like I always did Jakey"

I hate the way he calls him Jakey I hate him in a horrid way I wish he was at the breeder cairlfriend in the shorts

They have their mini reunion I turn away and walk to the nearest suy is asleep inside Half his face is burned

I walk from one small tent to the next, until I find one with a barrel-chestedat a map that’s spread across a table, "Are you Marshall?"

He nods, but looks suspiciously at me

"I need to knohere the closest breeder ca about volunteering are you? The food’s not that bad here"

I don’t laugh I look at the map I don’t kno to read htand raises his eyebrows, "Why?"

"My friend was taken I need her back"

He starts laughing again, "What do you plan on doing?"

I look up into his older gray eyes and his bright red beard and stare hiet her back"

He scratches the back of his fuzzy red head, "Look kid I get you’re upset but there is no getting theet a nice house in the city It’s not a bad gig They get healthy food and a place to sleep Your life here is harder"

I feel e

He puts his hands up defensively, "Look we have bigger fish to fry than worry about one girl at a breeder farm"

He turns his back onI feel ers twitch I want to pull an arrow

I leave the tent disheartened and lost

"E toward me

I scrunch up my face and walk away from them both I don’t kno to be dra inside ofaround a fire

I smile sweetly and look at the one who looks the most like my mother did, "Hi"

She raises her eyebrows and the corners of her mouth at the same time, "Hi sweetie"

The rebellion people are nice

"Do you knohere the nearest breeder camp is?"

She frowns, "Yeah" She looks over at a dark strawberry blonde who has a scar along her mouth, "Beth where was that camp that you all saw not far frohost town Used to be a place called Lincoln there Stay on the outskirts of that place"