Chapter Twenty-Four
Milo
I think it was morning, but it was still dark. The lights were off. It was Peter's shouts that woke me.
I bolted up in bed and looked over, trying to see what was happening. Only a thin sliver of light came from the door. I saw the two men struggling to carry Peter, and then the door to our chamber slammed shut. It was black again.
"What happened?" I asked into the darkness.
"They took him," Ivan cried. "He's gone like the others."
"I knew it would happen after last night. They always take them after something like that," Alex called out from his cell several sections down.
The lights to our chamber blinked on. The brightness made me squint. We all sat on the edges of our cots, looking confused, worried, and half-asleep.
Just then, there was a loud crash, l
