Chapter Eighteen

They tussled with the idea of Ari and Felix returning to the village.  Felix was concerned about the welfare of the baby after his wife having gone through the trauma of having a knife held to her throat and then being pinned beneath extreme dead weight that covered her body completely.  Ari held firm to her insistence that she was fine and so was the baby.  She wasn’t about to go back to the village when the others were going to Center Land.  The academy at Center Land was, after all, her alma mater.  Of everyone in the group, she belonged going there the most.

Kendra did  her best to emphasize that they had no plans of staying.  It was their intention to slip in, fetch Eugene, and slip out again.  The laughter that Ari emitted upon this statement sounded resentful and almost evil as she informed Kendra that no one simply slipped into Center Land.  She reminded her that the academy’s focus was to produce soldiers for t