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Lia ash I saw the lines of black unifor the kids froirl thrown out of her cabin and into the dirt, only to be yanked up by her hair Two kids I recognized frouns at the PSFs, who blew them away in a cloud of fire

"STOP WHERE YOU ARE!"

The air was knocked from my chest as Chubs dropped me to throw that saain, ere , tu down the hill Chubs let out a surprised croak as we rolled, picking up brush and eainst a tree, but I couldn’t see where ere going The smoke blindedface-first in the an to return to theedto die We are going to die We are going to die

Rabbits need to accept their fate, rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate, their fate, their fate, their fate--

The water was freezing and sedthe e-stained sky aiting as I broke into the night, coughing up water and poisoned air

Chubs foundto a wood post, the other reached out for ht, our dock I kicked toward him and let Chubs drawoverhead beat the lake into a frenzy of waves and patterns I could barely keep h to see the searchlights fro over the lake’s surface

I kept one arm around Chubs’s shoulders and used ae-slick supports He did the sauns had cleared fro, "Oh ed him as hard as my muscles could We didn’t dare to speak, but I felt hi to say, I knehat he wanted to ask, and neither of us could find the words to choke out amid the smoke and screams

TWENTY-NINE

MY LEGS WERE HALF FROZEN ere finally brave enough to an to warm the sky The helicopters disappeared first, then the sound of gunfire Between the two of us, there was only breathing and whispered fears about what had happened to the others--to Liam

"I don’t know," he said "We split up He could be anywhere"

I had wanted to get us out of the water two hours before, but we kept hearing the sound of falling trees and the crackling remnants of the terrible firestorm

Myto pull myself onto the dock than it nor with each cold breeze that slashed over our wet clothes We crawled our way back up the path, staying low to the ground until ere sure, positive beyond measure, that ere the last ones left

Most of the cabins were gone--piles of charred wood and stone A few still stood, burned out and hollow oron our hair and sticking to our wet clothes

"We should go to the Office," I said "Get inside We can gather up supplies and then try to go out and search for Lee"