A Cave in the Clouds by Badeeah Hassan Ahmed

Author:Badeeah Hassan Ahmed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2019-01-07T17:25:09+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The Dark Room

Then one day, the guard who had taken me outside the compound was back.

Everything inside me told me to look away, to run away, to abandon my plan. But when the guard knelt to give Eivan chocolates, I shuffled up close beside him. “I’ll go with you,” I croaked.

His body stiffened.

“I want to go with you,” I repeated. “Get me out, and my son and my sister, and I will do whatever you ask. But you need to take us all.”

The guard scanned the room, then let the contents of the candy box fall. Chocolates and sweets scattered everywhere. I realized he had dropped them on purpose to give us a cover for talking.

“I didn’t know if I could trust you,” I told him. “Now I do. I want to be with you. But we don’t have a lot of time. Emir says he wants the buyers to see me when they next come.”

“I understand,” he said.

When the guard moved on to the next child, I tore open the wrappers on Eivan’s chocolates. Navine and I rubbed the wrappers all over us. We even smeared chocolate on our teeth to make them look stained.

Neither of us heard the footsteps approach.

From out of nowhere, someone yanked my hair. I screamed as I felt myself being hauled up off the ground and then dragged along the floor.

Pain pulsated across my head and down my neck. Even my teeth hurt, as if they were being ripped from my body. I twisted from side to side, trying to break free, but the attacker’s grip was too strong.

I heard Eivan chasing after me. “Hide!” I tried to shout to him. But my throat was too sore for words to come out.

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