Chapter 21
“That’s everything I know,” I explained, my gaze darting around the room at all the girls. There were at least thirty of them sitting on the floor in the training room. A few of them were crying. The others were pale and wide-eyed.
Ashlyn leaned over and whispered, “I think you made some of them wet themselves.”
“Are there any questions?” Kiera asked. Her voice was gentle, something I rarely heard. Maybe I did go too far.
A girl with dark hair raised her hand. I remembered her name was Maggie. She was sixteen. “Yes, Maggie?”
“Why are you telling us this?”
A girl next to her said, “Because she wants us to go rescue them.”
“When you’re ready,” Ashlyn said, standing up from her chair.
I joined her. “There’s not enough time for you all to be ready.”
“It’s a suicide mission,
