Chapter 14
“Nothing has changed. But twice we have shown you good will. We even let you live with us but you won’t save us. Why?” Avu asked, her arms crossed as she leaned back on a tree trunk.
“Because” Nati sighed as she took a bite of an apple with a navy blue skin. “We, including me will die.”
“But you are confident that you will survive with Rachelle.”
“There is, of course, a difference between two people and fifty people.” She said biting down on a last bit of apple before swallowing the core. Avu frowned, it was a deeper frown than any she had seen before. Whatever battle against her sense of good and bad was ending. Eventually she would have to follow through on her many threats.
“What about ten?” Daki suggested.
“No!” Avu snapped, turning sharply on her boyfriend. “We all ag
