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"Coate the gunshots"
I walked over to the three slave girls and spoke to them softly I orried they’d think they’d fallen out of the frying pan and into the fire with us Winky had even freaked ht ere bad news
"Hey," I said walking up slowly "My naot so violent We planned to come in here and sneak you away … but as you can see, our plan kind of went straight to hell e got caught ourselves"
Bodo cahis arh the clouds now and the rain had lessened to a bare drizzle He looked gorgeous in the fresh, new sunlight
I nodded, turning uys are Ronald and Jamal, they’re twin brothers That oman over there is Winky, and she’s not usually that out of control, I pro, Buster I assu at Bodo
He nodded "He’s got hiss gun"
I looked back at the girls "So, if you want, you can co?" said one of them, the taller one with dirty blonde hair
"We’re headed to the Everglades prison"
"Why?" asked another, this one with light brown skin and dark hair
"We want to set up a new coood place"
The three girls looked at each other and nodded silently
The blonde answered ot no other options at this point So we’ll go until we decide we don’t want to be with you anyirl spoke next "We appreciate the offer, though Don’t think we don’t"
"Yeah," agreed the blonde "You didn’t have to come in here after us, and we know that And you took care of those ," said Jaht have heard the ruckus"
I nodded irls "You should probably wait on the road We have to get our bikes and crap We’ll bring the to wait until it’s safer to travel?" asked Ronald
"No Like Jaet the heck out of this area Maybe we’ll find a place we can stop farther down"
"Sounds good to irls okay?" I asked
The blonde nodded "We’re good Hurry back, though" She cast nervous glances at her friend, the one who’d been sleeping Her sudden burst of energy seenificantly in the last few ain
"Back in a few minutes," I said
Bodo put his hand in h the weeds to the road, where we stopped to look north and south No one was there that we could see, but it didn’t really make me feel better since I had the sense there were people there, hiding
"Have you tried to reach Nina lately?" I asked
"I haven’t seen her I will keep blowing one" He pulled it out of his pocket and blew it three ti
"Maybe she’s just pouting Once we settle down at our final spot you can work on getting her to coed "Maybe I don’t want to do it too much because den maybe canners will hear us"
I nodded "Probably better that you don’t" I felt bad telling him that, but we really couldn’t risk it I hoped he’d be able to find some neks to train near the prison
We walked back to Peter as standing behind a tree with his gun ready and Buster on his leash
"Oh, thank God you’re back," he said, shoving the gun in his backpack that was at his feet "I heard those gunshots and thought for sure you were dead" He rushed over to hug ed hirazed, but she seeo exa up her shirt "It’s like a cut and a burn at the same time"
"Yeah That’s exactly what it feels like," said Winky, looking over her shoulder at hio" Peter looked up at the sky "It’s stopped raining Do you think you could ithout a shirt on?"
Winky raised an eyebrow at hi her ar to one of the backpacks "I just think it would be better to save our supplies, so if you can just let your wound hang out in the air instead of having ed "I have a bra on I don’t care if you guys see it"
I walked over and helped her out of her shirt Petersalve of some sort over the injury
"Okay That about does it," he said, patting her on the shoulder "Better?"
"No"
"Good Let’s go," he said, ignoring her frown
We pushed our bikes out onto the road, all of us struggling a bit under the heavier loadshad on our backs, thanks to Peter having e left in it was the suitcase of grenades Winky had to wear hers too, and I didn’t envy her the scraping on her injury She winced every ti on the car The tired one was sleeping, curled up on the crumpled hood
"Do you think she can ride in the trailer?" I asked
"Yeah," said the blonde
"What are your names, anyway?" Winky asked
"Oh, sorry I’m Gretchen," said the blonde "This is Bianca, and that’s Jenny"