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– AFRICAN PROVERB –

Reirls to search for better shelter Eventually, she found a deeper overhang where they could ride out the stor seen by the kidnappers from the trail above The climb to the top of the cliffs froirls But the crevice they’d shimmied down seemed to be a channel for runoff and she worried that if the steady rain continued, as now a thin streaed waterfall

Judging by the sky, they had a very narro before the storain The rain, however, concerned her less than the severe wind gusts that could easily knock the sure she wasn’t invading the hoirls “We don’t have ”

Airls stepped aside Nasha, the child that Remi had come to think of as her warrior princess, sat with her ar back and forth

“Nasha” Remi held out her hand

“It’s never co back,” Nasha said, to no one in particular

“The helicopter?” Re back”

Unfortunately, the other girls keyed in on Nasha’s fear, their concern ray sky above them “Why’d it leave?” Jol asked “It was almost all the way here”

Nasha’s eyes welled with tears “Because Boko Hara at them They’ll never come back They can’t”

Re her close She’d never seen the girl this frightened “I don’t think they’re Boko Harah she’d heard tales of so anyone they deemed a threat to their pastureland, she wasn’t about to h to worry about “They probably thought that helicopter was trying to bring the the cows”

Jol turned in panic toward Remi “They won’t kill us, too, will they?”

“No,” Re happen to any of you”

“You can’t pro away from her “You don’t even know”

Zara’s eyes widened “You’re scaring me”

“You should be scared They killed everyone in ot scared and ran away”