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“I have to agree with you Let’s talk to the girls” Re to do, that they’d all be setting out on foot

Zara lit up “If we go farther down the road, we can warn my father”

Re, “I’ood idea”

“Why not?” the girl asked

“You saw the guns those men had?”

She nodded

“I don’t think they’d hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way”

“But they didn’t kill us …” She looked over at the other girls, perhaps hoping for soreement

Re her hand “Only because ere supposed to be their hostages I can’t say that about anyone who helps us If we leave the truck behind, we can set out on foot and e Or at least help”

Zara’s eyes welled up, but she nodded, saying, “My father says the footpath could take someone all the way to Cameroon”

Marya up to the school There’s a sign warning to watch for hikers”

They all turned toward Re, that sign’s going tothe truck there is like putting out an even bigger sign saying Here We Are”

Nasha looked up at Remi “What about the dirt trick? Like you did when the Kalu brothers cao the other?”

Remi was about to explain that the only reason that had worked was because they’d only needed a short space of time to hide in order to defend themselves—never mind that she and Sam had both been armed This was … different

Or was it?