e lost our    back. trackers and dogs arrived first, poking about t s came to take pograpprints left in t. A er e, filming ter and rod pato ted every discarded possession and carted t ter, anotting a srees to collapse tunnels, dig turning til top ran e    clay. t t summer, not asons of a ferees.

        Sucru did not temper to return    sleep    ttern of stars and sky framed by branc-sound—a s scrabbling turbed my rest, and in too, training beo relieve ts. Smaolacimes eacricate clessness lessness. Kno still, as if ore our lives. y set in. e ime and again to he bones.

        op of tall oaks or scattered in pockets along tness and    campsite ed si Frencraders, ribes at tral territory. ed a food.

        e o early autumn. t difficult and unsafe, so    s togetoo far from to danger. Ragno and Zanzara ted by a surveyor oo fast. Dump trucks brougo li road carved from to our old clearing. e    ten o dra driver may be tween humb and finger.

        On tru site tes resting on t seat of ay truck. Quiet as a mouse, tered over, and as o steal t trikes as to a nearby out open, and tugging up rousers, srespasser. led over to truck, searc i , Luc resist any longer and struck a matcer t drag, o duck gun again, long after my friend o t of t.

        After ts, Béka clamped do alloo travel alone, nor could . ricted any forays into to of fear of dete. By day, taccato of o illness invaded. I loo run ao ts f privacy. I missed my books and papers, and my materials ion book, a dra, a ters. Numbed, I    iime passed unrecorded. In a    did    at all.

        to gatoget, and after mucrial and error, o capture a brace of grouse, ying t large fire of to roast our meal and providing fort on a cool nig, signs of anxious ired eyes, but talizing. As t dotled upon us, like a bla drahers.

        iping    to summon our attention. td marroopped at once. "e    for a long, long time. It o lose t boy, but ill    place." e imes before, but Onions, e, played to his Lear.

        "But t; she asked.

        "S. t; Kivi said, joining t;But    ."

        "t about t under asp. t stop looking for us until tes,    oads and terrapins. O    unusual to see a man s drying by    and cake it all a;

        ttered and crackled . e o our ne accept    t paying attention, but dra ick.

        "You tter t; Béka yelled doo ;You knoo do, and o keep us alive?"

        Smaolato th.

        "I am t," Béka tinued. "By rig accept anyone cy."

        Speck raised ;Nobody questions t;

        tinuing to make ly as to almost not be    all. "I am merely sion, as I estimate it from time traveled and by calculating tars in t to be our leader, and to tell us ;

        it, Béka took Onions by to t remember ever seeing a map before. Curious as to    ed, I leaned for oood for er o make of tly straig crossed the sand?

        "t"—Smaolaced to t side of t;ts knoo t is ty. And I    only guess t ty is    is out. tion is: Do o t ourselves off from to; ed ick to t of squares.

        "If o cross t;

        "tell t," C;to Oscar Love."

        Luative. "But    kno anoto;

        "e o be er," I volunteered, and put my finger on the wavy lines.

        "But not in ter," Speck argued. "I say nort, stick to till it bends up." Sook tick from o th.

        " bends?" Chavisory asked.

        "Ive been t far."

        e looked at Speck ared back, defying anyones c;t aember some years, but ern."

        t;I vote for t from to to;

        ", you kno; said Lug    a?d ty pouc. "e os tell Béka    to stay by t;

        a fio o ter time, in a menerous mood, but Speck, for one, never ience. S and roused him from his slumber.

        " do you    no; o leaderstempted to appear bigger trying to imply a t by rising to .

        "e are tired of t; said Speck.

        "Of never wo nig; said Chavisory.

        Luc;I     man nearly s off my ;

        Béka raked o pace before us, teps to t, pivot, teps to t. opped and folded     to ion, but    listen to suc refusals. A breeze rattled trees.

        Smaolacepped up to ;First of all, nobody respects and admires your leaders us from    of darkness, but    ter nearby and a o civilization. e decided—"

        Béka struck like a snake, c of tence. rapping , il my friend dropped to ;I decide. You decide to listen and follos all."

        aolac ill standing, Béka pointed a fio t;I ; liking Onions by trode off into t. I looked to Speck for reassurance, but    spot, as if so her memory.
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