as they do with everything they don’* want – in the desert, and we picked them up and used them here. They never asked us about it, so either they trust us enough or they simply don’t care. Anyway, they can** see anything that goes on, so we can talk freely.”
“Okay, that makes a bit more sense. But what’s with the key and the map? Why’d you take everything?”
“Well, again, seeing as we’ve been here the longest, and they don’t ever enter the arena, they have sort of made us the second-in-charge. They give us orders and we have to do what they say… otherwise, long story short, we get killed. The orders are like when we had to kill Aaron, or when we had to kidnap you, and then when they had to watch Aaron getting killed. Things like that. It’s not stuff we want to do – well, I don’* want to do most of the stuff they get us to do anyway – but we have to do it.* Lorja paused, before remembering Emma’s original question. “Oh right, the key.
“There were always rumours of three things that were hidden in the desert; a key, a map and a gate. You’ve found two of them, and luckily for you, the gate’s shown on the map. However, the map was actually created by the Chiefs, and it should be confusing because some of it’s not true. They saw you carrying it, which is why they got us to kidnap you. We’re going to give you both the key and the map back. However, you can** let them know that you’ve still got the map because they’ll get suspicious; we’ve supposed to have destroyed it by now.*
*Why haven’t you?” Emma suddenly interrupted, her eyebrows raising.
“Emma, we don’* want to live like this anymore. We’re sick of being forced to do things that are so inhumane. We thought we’d never have a chance of getting out of this place until we heard about you. We’d have never guessed that the woman we met at our village would be you, the one who’s given us so much hope. We need you to help us escape.”
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Lady Railly
