NovelEnglish“You cut your hair,” I said trying not to sound like they’d scaredhalf to death.
Hannah gave a snort and pirouetted.
“It grows really fast, Mama,” she said. “I got it cut right before my…initiation.”
I cocked my head and looked at her quizzically. “Initiation into what?”
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“Bunch of hippies that believe slavery is wrong and are willing to fight for their beliefs,”she said inEnglish. “You’ll know them when you see them. They’ve started to wear beads in their hair. You have to earn your beads and we aren‘t old enough to go through the trials, yet.”
Kennedy poked up and looked at her Sister.”How old?”she asked struggling to sit up in the sling.
Hannah smiled wide seeing her Little Sister for the first tand stepped closer.”Much older, kid, but we still have our uses.”
“I named her Kennedy. Would you Like to hold her?” I asked Hannah while propping Kennedy up.
“Not a chance,” Ra warned in a low voice. “I know it’s customary on Earth, but here no one touches a talonless female other than the female breeder. It would be an insult for us to touch her.” That was surprising and I felt silly for offering, but Hannah soothedquickly. “You know I’d Love toMama.I’d hold her andkissher silly, but I don’t want any extra attention today. We need to not be noticed.”
The girls looked at one another and then atuneasily. Ra cleared her throat and then spoke quietly.
He need a favor,Mama,a big favor,” she said.
“We’ll understand if you can’t,” Hannah said hesitantly.
When Ra spoke next it was inEnglish,perfectly accented. Evidently Hannah had been teaching her.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“There are free men held in the mountain now. The women caught them. We know these men, they are stubborn,”Ra said.
Hannah continued the story,”They are like Daddy, Warriors, Mama. They will not be broken. We have to save them or the women will kill them, because they will not tthem.”
I gasped and shook my head. Free men being killed set my stomach on edge. That was horrible.
“They would see us enter, Mama, and not let us near the men,” Hannah said, “but we know you could get to them. The men guarding them would never see you and you could avoid the cameras.”
“We would give you something to release their restraints,” Ra said, “and food to make them strong for the escape. Once you’re done with that, you leave, they will take care of the rest themselves.”
I Looked down at Kennedy and knew I could not do this. It would put her life in jeopardy. She had other ideas
“We will do it,”Kennedy said decisively.”Mama is scared, but she can do it.”
“Nu-reeh will not harm you or the babe,”Hannah pleaded.”You are their only chance.”
I looked between the three girls and shivered. I’d always just played along on this planet. Anything I’d had to do to survive, I’d done. Never once had I been strong and stood up to my captors. Today I had my chance.
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