38. Rescue

"Salim? Anything positive?" Zayed asked as soon as his elder cousin brother came into the council room.

"No. Mother was behaving rather oddly" Salim said with a confused frown

"Odd as in?" Basim asked

"I don't know. She was refusing my claims on her people being behind the abduction. She wouldn't let me even talk" Salim said with an exaserpated sigh

"Your highness" the three of them looked towards the source of the voice and found their security team head, Hyder looking at them with a determined face.

"Hyder, speak" Salim ordered

"We found them. The kids are kept hostage at an abandoned warehouse near the Bedouin tents. About twenty miles west, exactly" Hyder said

"What about the force?" Zayed asked

"Already set in motion. There are more than thirty of our men already around the warehouse. Waiting for my order to move in" Hyder said

"I need to be there" Zayed said

"Sure Your Highness. It is advisable to take your horse. That would keep us from alerting them" Hyder suggested.

"Right.