Chapter 74

Eventually, I was woken up as Basin and his Brothers came back. They gave the Keepers several stones and put out the fire in the fireplace. One of them picked me up and carried me down to their quarters. They laid me in their bed and ordered me to go to sleep.

Rose was wide awake and staring at me. I didn't know what to say or do, so I laid down. The men lay down but were up a moment later.

"Where ** ** ** are they?" one man asked pacing back and forth.

He used so many curse words I could barely understand him.

"They disappear from their post, show up once we've started a search and claim to be feeding their slave. Their slave was at their home! They never went there. Now they are gone again. Have they lost their ability to reason? The General will beat them bloody. We couldn't hide it, it was too obvious. Slave, what are your owners thinking?" the man asked turning on me.

I knew what they were thinking. I knew I couldn't lie, so I told the truth. "T