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promise I’ll try to get back before anyone discovers you’re here,” Ana whispered
    to the naked, unconscious Gothman on the shed floor. “But, maybe next time you won’t
    tease me for being a girl.”
     
    “Mirak, where are you?” She jumped at the low growl of the Gothman soldier.
     
    She crept outside quietly. As long as the large brute of a Gothman didn’t get too
    close to her she stood a small chance in hell of getting through this night without
    getting hurt again. Certainly Papa’s personal guards wouldn’t hurt her. What
    instructions had her father left with the guards? Had he even mentioned her as a
     
    possible risk? Or, worse yet, would her mama have left instructions?
     
    She shoved those thoughts out of her head.
     
    “Right here.” She mumbled and stepped a foot or so away from the shed.
     
    Her hair was stuffed up under Mirak’s hat and she held his laser in her hand. She
    looked at the large man from under the rim of the hat, not daring to raise her head too
    high. The Gothman soldier seemed to stare at her for an eternal amount of time. She
    didn’t realize she was holding her breath until he spoke.
     
    “It’s time to rotate. Why are you just standing there?” The harsh whisper insulted
    her and her heart pounded when she realized the large soldier was Gilroy.
     
    She didn’t answer but turned and walked with long strides across the yard to the
    side of the house. She wouldn’t look back to see if Gilroy watched her. Her heart
    pounded so loudly she was sure others could hear it. Her legs wobbled as she stood
    alongside the house where Mirak would stand. And she hoped and prayed the big kid
    would remain out cold for a while.
     
    Minutes seemed like hours before she decided to make her escape. Ana crouched
    low as she ran across the drive to the large garage where all the guard’s gliders were
    parked. She jumped onto Mirak’s and flew off into the darkness. Mirak’s comm lay on
    the dash and she watched it with horror waiting for it to beep. No one called wondering
    what she was doing.
     
    * * * * *
    Ana landed alongside the large rocks where she’d met Roth. No sign of a camp
    existed, or for that matter that anyone had been there. But she hadn’t expected to see
    him. This was where he would come to meet her later today and this was where she’d
    leave a message for him.
     
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    She pulled out a folded piece of paper and sat down on the ground. She hadn’t
    dared to write the message while at her house. If anyone discovered whom she’d talked
    to she might very well put Roth in danger. And he wasn’t dangerous…he couldn’t be.
    Passionate green eyes stared at her mind’s eye as she carefully explained she couldn’t
    meet him later that day. She wrote that she wanted to see him again. Then, after
    hesitating, she finally asked if they could meet somewhere closer to her house.
     
    It crossed her mind that Tree People might use another alphabet. The Neurians did.
    Would he understand her message? She looked around for something that would
    indicate the message was from her just in case he couldn’t read it. But she’d traded
    clothes with Mirak. Everything on her belonged to him. The glider was Mirak’s too. She
    looked back at the piece of paper and finally took her pen and drew the symbol for the
    Blood Circle Clan—a blood drop surrounded by a circle.
     
    She placed the piece of paper on a large rock and then found a smaller rock on the
    ground to keep it there. Standing back, she smiled. Roth would find it. She turned back
    to go to the glider.
     
    “Ana, what are you doing here?”
     
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    All For One
     
    Chapter Six
     
    The owner of the green eyes that had consumed her thoughts now stood directly in
    front of her. Roth looked at her, and his hands went to his hips. When he smiled, her
    insides flipped.
     
    “I…I left you a message.”
     
    “You left a message for me?” His smile grew, and he looked up