About an hour later, we heard a lot of muffled commotion through the door, booted feet pounding up and down the stairs, and yelling. I had settled in next to my mother, letting her lean on me. It didn"t seem real, that this was the woman who had raised me and hidden me away, the woman who had been gone from my life for more than twenty years, and here I was holding her in a closet with a bunch of strangers.
We didn"t talk, all of us afraid that even a whisper would give us away.
It seemed to take forever for the noise to die down and we waited a whole hour more before we began shifting around, stretching stiff muscles, and standing. “Cambious and his group will go first. Keep quiet and follow his lead,” I said before hugging my mother to me. “I"ll see you soon, okay?”
“Be careful, Thána
