NovelEnglishAs a group we Lay panting and sated on the bed for many Long moments. I hoped our indiscretion had not gottenpregnant, but I knew it was a possibility. Looking at my happy family I couldn’t blame myself for letting them play. It had been too long since we were permitted to be close.
I steeled myself, though. Perhaps not now, but one day I would have to explain to them how making babies worked. They should understand anal sex wasn’t a legitimate form of birth control.
Hannah arrived after we were all cleaned up and healing cream slathered liberally over my skin. The men and I had eaten a meal in the dining hall, but were back and sitting in the main room. It was late, but I wanted to be up when she got back. Hannah seemed Like she was trying to hide her excitement or pretend it did not exist.
“Nu-reeh thinks I should sleep like the other girls sleep,” she said casually.
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“You know, Mama, it’s no big deal. I like the bed. Sleeping on the warm stones is really overrated.”
I didn’t know the women slept on warm stones. If it was what I gave birth on, I couldn’t imagine how that would be comfortable. The feeling I got from Hannah is she wanted desperately to try it, though.
“You know,” I told her, “when I was girl we went camping a few times.” “In the trailer, I know,” she said fiddling with my knitting needles.
“It was fun,” I pressed.
“We met new people at their campsites, sometimes we ate different food, and got to explore the parks we were in.”
“She showeda place,” Hannah said quietly. “It’s a spot real near where she mines. It has a really nice place to sleep and the other girls stay away from there, because it’s hers.”
I kept a big fake smile on my face and nodded. If I said anything right now I would cry or my voice would crack. Christof savedfrom having to speak.
“Must be high up,” he said thoughtfully.
“I bet the view from there is amazing.”
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“I still can’t believe she went and got you that way,” Evan said.
“I wonder what the men in the compound thought of a woman stealing a slave?” Kein asked.
I had a feeling the men had not seen her takeat all. I think their attention was all on the women coming after them and Nu-reeh had been, for lack of a better term, off their radar, thanks to her implant. I still wasn’t sure how to explain that to my men.
Damien and his Brothers continued to talk pleasantly with Hannah. Sleeping somewhere different would be fun, they told her. She might even see different things, especially above the cloud line.
They had her convinced. She just wanted to take a blanket “in case she got cold”, which I suspected would never happen. Christof made a bag for her with a single blanket I had knitted and sdried meat. She attached the bag securely to her front before she left
A kiss and a hug and she was off.
I sat stoically until she was gone and then fought to control the tears. The men sat withand tried to offer comfort, although they weren’t really sure what they were doing. When I heard clattering talons I knew who had arrived, so I dried my cheeks.
Nu-reeh wanted to talk, Dinah told us motioning. We walked swiftly through the caves to the women’s area. Nu-reeh Landed in front of the incline below the women’s area as we arrive
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