If he could have taken that loaf of bread back to the nest, he would have been a hero.
Instead, the new soldiers had shot him with wires. He couldn’t make his leg move, or his hands. They’d caught him and tied him up, these strange soldiers with tears in their eyes. Soldiers did not cry. They’d taken him in and taken him to this new land and given him gifts.
We are here to help the weak.
We are here to help the weak.Our home has no war.
Our home has no war.You will be safe.
You will be safe.The strange soldiers hadn’t lied. Mister Counselor Henders had not lied.
They’d merely been wrong.
War was everywhere. And now it had come for these kind people.
Alek shuddered and sobbed silently in the dark as his fresh hope died.
And the Family smelled his need.
Tiny feet scuttled along the
