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Ronald held the door open for me and Jaate,as I silently counted heads There were at least thirty kids out there, several of the like they needed food and shelter

I stopped just a few feet froh away that no one could reach through and grab me

A kid I’d never seen before was in front of everyone, right by the opening to the gate

I stood facing hi in his ultra-skinny six-foot-tall fraent but serious eyes

"Hi," I said

"Hi Are you Bryn?"

"I am And who are you?"

"I’ a new place down here A cannibal-free zone"

My heart stopped as the sound of my dad’s name came fro like I was seeing a ghost - ently fro double-tiet back to its norto run away from me

"We’d like to join you"

I raised an eyebrow "All of these people are with you?"

He nodded "Most of them Some we picked up recently"

"Where are you fro way from home," said Ronald

"We have no ho to work for it," he said, nodding his head firmly

I wanted to believe hi his aside, knowing I needed to be sardless of how I felt personally I had to find a way to deter a ho to breach our defenses

"How do I know you’re not a canner … a cannibal? Or a sweeper?"

"I don’t knohat a sweeper is, but you know I’aunt face and skeletal fra in any barbecues lately?"

"He’s got a point," said Ja his head sadly

Derek turned and gestured to the group "We’re all starving Some of us barely iven up hope of finding any safe place to live until we came upon the waystation"