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Peter nodded "She would have liked that, I think The Lily Heggenburger Clinic"

A full two seconds went by before three people snorted Then the rest of us, save Bodo and Peter, started giggling

"What?" said Peter, offended "It’s a perfectly good naer? Is that seriously your last name?" I asked "I can’t believe I didn’t know that before now"

"Yes," he said, lifting his chin "I’ll have you know it has a distinguished history"

"I like it," said Bodo "It’s a nice Cheren er part?" asked Bianca, clearing her throat, trying to get serious

"A burg is a town and a burger is a person who lives in a town So, Heggenburger, dats a person who liffs in da town of harbor or cherish Kindt of like dat, but not exactly"

I nodded my head "Sorry, Peter That name is actually pretty cool, and perfect for a hospital I’htiest voice

"Anyone else?" I asked

Everyone shook their heads

"Maybe to to bed"

"This early?" asked Jaoing to do lookouts or guards?"

"Buster will be our guard," said Peter, lying down and pulling hied in a nice long kiss with Bodo

"I’edder," he whispered

"Me too"

"And you luff me now"

"Yeah I do"

"Good You are Mrs Bodo den"

"Whatever you say, Mr Bryn"

"I’b aboud do gag on the sugar, guys," said Winky

I kicked her gently withI re before I fell into a thankfully dreamless sleep was the fact that we’d finally found our safe haven

I sat up straight, yawning as I took inin fro sun Everyone was still asleep, a couple of thehtly

"Wake up, everyone!" I said cheerily "The first day of the town of Haven has begun!"

Peter sat up and rubbed his head "Haven? I thought ere calling it Derek Mathis whatever"

"I thought about it and decided that Haven was more accurate And easier to say and re up and pushing on his brother "Get up, Ronnie Tiain," said Bianca "But I like it, so I’ and stretching her long frame She was bone-thin and er slouching or looking cowed, and itand reached up to touch her hair "It’s my hair isn’t it? I know, it’s terrible This was Bianca’s brilliant idea"

"No, it wasn’t," she co up too She was a couple inches shorter than her friend "It was Jenny’s idea and I just seconded it"

"Oh sure, blairl," said Ja ed Bodo with et this over with"

"Food first," said Peter, dragging a backpack over to him He pulled out a loaf of hard, stale bread "So her face gingerly She took one hand away fro out a knife and handing it over to Peter without looking

"Thank you," he said, taking it and trying to slice the bread

"Give that tothe bread and knife away He put it on the blanket and sawed pieces off for all of us

We stood around crunching our old bread, sh style," agreed Gretchen

"Better than caviar," said Jamal "I think I’ve never had caviar before, actually"

We all laughed It felt like a great start to a new day and a new life

After we all did our business outside, we caroup Peter volunteered to stay behind with Jenny and all of our supplies I un and keep it in his lap

"You don’t need to kill anyone who coet over," I said, looking at hi attention to me

"But if they shoot at you, then you shoot back," said Winky, her voice back to nor in her nose was down a bit Her face looked awful, but I was pretty sure her nose had been saved

"Yeah, yeah, okay I got it Just go see what you can find," he said, waving us off

We started in the hallway to the left of the front desk area In the beginning, we had to use keys, but most of the doors after the front section were open They were the bar-type, the kind used to keep prisoners in their area We passed roo spaces, all of thereen color, some of them empty and so rooms None of them had s The ones that looked like offices had thick wired glass separating theh a triple set of doors and found ourselves in one of the prisoner wings It was empty We whispered as alked around the different levels, takingsounds when the sneakers of our friends hit them The moccasins were as silent here as they were in the swamp