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Kaira fought hard to act normally. She couldn’t help feel they were incredibly conspicuous, the group of them including the children, and that they would be easily spotted.
But as they made their way down the bustling corridors she realised they looked no different than many other groups consisting of families. There was nothing unusual about their group, nothing to make them stand out. They weren’t even carrying as much baggage as some families she saw.
For a few minutes they’d been led and accompanied by guards, but before long the doctor’s brother-in-law, Doug, took the lead and sent the guards away. Once the guards were well out of earshot he glanced back at the group.
“It’s not that I don’t trust them,” he said. “But I don’t know that we can trust them. Besides, they made
