Kinza woke to bright sunlight and a kink in her neck. She groaned as she sat up. Zaid and Khalil were already up and talking and she tried to stretch out her stiff muscles. It took a moment, but the events from the night before hit her and she stifled a scream. She had hoped she would wake from this nightmare, but it looked like she wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
“It’s on the other side of the city, Khalil,” Zaid was saying. “We are bound to run into someone at some point. We might as well lower those odds by going through the western quarter.”
“We don’t know who’s over there though. At least we have already been through the east and know what to expect,” Khalil replied.
“Where are we going?” Kinza asked, standing up.
She wasn’t surprised that Zaid didn’t respond to her nor even l
