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"Back to base"

"Base?"

"You’ll see," Caleb said, ih questions"

I gripped the back of his seat and, wiping away h the screen to try to make sense of where ere headed All I could see was an endless expanse of black ocean

I sat back in my seat and closed ht about the mobile phone they had confiscated Our parents were used to us calling thrice a week Usually Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays If we didn’t call theet suspicious

But how on earth will they find us? They’ll contact the adventure coo

Goddamn it We should have called to tell them about those vampires

Tears threatened to consuh there was no point to the Ben back Or help our parents find us I looked up at Caleb

He’s our only hope

I still didn’t understand hisus, and I couldn’t trust hiht we had in this darkness

I sneezed My clothes were soaking from the rain

Caleb turned around in his chair to look at ot up "Co the passageway We stopped outside a door He knocked three times

"Frieda," he called

The door opened and a tall ebony-skinned vaash in her arirl could change into?"

Her chestnut-brown eyes settled on me and she nodded

"Yes, I’ Come in"

Celeb placed his hand on the sed me inside Frieda closed the door behind ot here," she said

The cabin was tiny--barely large enough for a single bed and a cabinet She crouched down and pulled open a drawer in the chest in the corner

The first thing she pulled out was a towel Then a long cotton nightdress

"It’s notin those wet clothes"

She placed both on her bed and left the roo wet pajamas so I just put them in a corner of the room I dried htdress over my head I wrapped up my wet hair in the towel to for outside