Chapter 293

Night was falling fast. We didn’t want to be standing on a mountain ledge in the dark. Evan stooped and picked up the small package Nu-reeh had dropped. It smelled familiar.

The curse words were in my head. She was feeding me and only me. The men could tolerate that, it would just be uncomfortable. Nu-reeh had doubled the punishment by feeding me meat soaked in tami. The smell would make the men crazy and she knew it.

“We’ll split it,” I offered hopefully.

I’d feel awful being the only one to eat.

That idea was met with fury. Nu-reeh would just devise worse punishment if they did something like that. I’d eat and they would suffer. That is how it had to be for now.

None of us voiced it, but we all hoped, one day we would be free to make our own choices.

The men did not mind going hungry, they’d done it before. In the past they’d not been subjected to smelling tami all night, though. We settled just outside the cave and Evan opened Nu-reeh’s package