you need to go

When the door finally creaked open, it was my cousin, Breanna, who looked down at me with wide eyes.

“You need to go.”

“What?”

“Find your native friend, and go. I packed some things for you. Go to your room and change, but you need to be gone in like ten minutes, Eileen.”

“Breanna, what is going on?”

“I want a chance at a life that is not here, Eileen. And Arvin is willing to offer that. but not if you are here. So, go!”

I looked into Breanna’s muddled eyes and saw what I thought was a glimmer of desperation, and possibly hope. None of the mischievous, strong willed Breanna I had known. However, I also had heard the men outside the window and was not about to pass up the chance she was offering me.

“Thank you, Breanna. I will remember this.”

“See that you do.”

There was a hint of sorrow in that remark that I couldn’t quite understand. I dashed upstairs and pulled on my thick furs. Breanna had already laid out so