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"I tell you what, Sahalia," Niko said "If you take the kids to the Living Roo you a little kid You’ll have full big-kid status and all the privileges of a big kid"

"Oh, now I’uys treat --"

"Sahalia!" Niko shouted "I Need Your Help!"

"Fine," she spat "But I want my vote counted"

"And what’s your vote?" Niko asked

"Let the on out there Co up the little kids

"Let theh the ruckus of little kids’ voices

"Hey, Sahalia," I called as she herded the kids off "We set up a sundae bar…"

"For breakfast?" she said, disapproving

"Mr Appleton, you’ll need to wait for a moment," Niko said into the intercom "We need to discuss this and take a vote"

The man’s muffled face came close to the monitor

"We understand that you need time to decide," he said "There’s a lot of very scary people out here But you can trust Robbie and me That’s why Mrs Wooly told Robbie about where you were She and Robbie are good friends

"But now I am injured and we’re out of supplies Food and water are very scarce out here If you could just help us stock up, we can give you the only thing we really have to trade"

"What’s that?" Niko asked

"Information," he said

It was as heated a debate as we’d ever had Niko and Jakethem in

Niko was really concerned that they had shot the O ainst us We could end up their prisoners They ht take over and try to rule the Greenway

"My job is to keep you safe," Niko said, his aruns and they are adults They can take care of themselves"

"If they try to take over it’ll be a total downer," Jake drawled His eyes were glassy and strange "They should just go on their way We don’t want strangers in here, telling us what to do"

Brayden shook Jake’s arm

"Dude, are you insane?" Brayden said "They can tell us what’s going on out there! We need to know! And we got tons of stuff We trade stuff for inforenerous and share e have We need to knohat’s going on outside It’s worth the risk," Josie said

Alex was opposed to adding any variables into as a stable environment

What tipped it was the rules Brayden proposed

And my vote

Niko turned to all of us

"I just want it on the record that I a it because I’ve been outvoted I think it’s a bad idea"

"Yeah, yeah," Brayden said "Do you want to tell theer onto the Talk button

"We’ll let you in," said Niko into the intercouns for the duration of your stay Two, you agree to leave to, no ive you, and four, you swear you will abide by our rules"

"Agreed," said Mr Appleton, without consulting Robbie "No can we help you open up this door?" he asked

"We can’t open it," Niko answered "We’ll throw you a ladder down from the roof"

I was banished from the storeroom, as were Niko and Brayden

"You, too, Josie," Niko said

"But we don’t even knohat type I am!" she protested

"Exactly," said Niko

Alex and Jake would be the ones to let theas a preventative measure Niko handed Jake the home security ladder and then Jake and Alex went up thethe hatch