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Tucking a fist under his jaw, he eyed farmhouse in the center of it all—her home.

his daughter. “Hmmm, I think you’re THREE “Can’t I stay here and watch Ju-ju?
right. You are much taller now, and GUARDS I promise I’m old enough now.” She stood
you have been doing very well with CLIMBED OUT OF up straight, rising onto her tip-toes.
your chores.” He turned to pick up “Why do I think you just don’t
a basket of berries beside him, THE TRANSPORT. want to face what your mother
revealing Ju-ju gurgling happily LAUREN FROWNED- has to say about your last school
from his bound perch on their report?” Laughing, her father
father’s back. Ju-ju’s eyes, round THAT GREEN-SKINNED reached out to fluff her braids

and green as a norango leaf, FALLEEN, ANNAZ, again, and Lauren quickly ducked
locked with Lauren’s and he WAS THE ONLY under his arm.
gave her a smile that mirrored “Ada!”
their father’s. Turning back to PERSON WHO EVER He sobered when he saw her
her, Lauren’s father gently poured CAME TO THE FARM serious expression. Reaching
some of his norangos into her back, he unbound Ju-ju and set
basket, topping it off. “Take these WITH HIRED him down between them.
in to Ama, please.” GUNS. “My little Lau, what is the most
Lauren looked across the sprawling important thing?”
berry field—past the workers filling baskets “Family,” she answered, without hesitation.
of their own with berries, toward the modest Any youngling knew that.

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