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I RAN INTO THE HALL and knocked on the doors of the other two rooms. “We’re going, quick, the bus is outside.”
None of the adults had gone to sleep yet, so the announcement was followed by a complete frenzy. Members of my team ran around, half-dressed, collecting items from the apartment. The final parts of the hub had to be dismantled and packed away, the weapons and armour donned, toiletries collected.
I didn’t know that we had ever packed as fast as we did then. This included all our clothes and weapons and all the things for Ayshada because he was the only person to have been asleep.
He woke up cranky and let his displeasure be known.
Nicha had to do his utmost to keep him quiet.
But a short while later, we were all packed and crammed into the lift. Nicha had been down to chec
