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Tomas, carefully stepping over the things that lie on the floor. She had enhanced night vision as they all did but Natalie didn't rely on it often. It was just her sheer talent for remembering even the most intricate of spaces that navigated her through the dark rooms. She was a professional thief through and through and had robbed more than twenty banks with the utmost skill. Her methods were systematic yet not one cop could figure out her M.O., who had been stealing since before she had known Mar. They had met when a then seventeen year old Natalie decided to scale the gates of the newly purchased land by Mar and her husband. She had always gotten a rush out of stealing, much like how Felicity got a rush out of hunting, but when she had met Mar who was waiting in the shadows for her she found a better use for her skill. She then decided to join them and left her boyfriend and grandparents behind in confusion. At the time she didn't know she was pregnant but by then Mar had already given her a life so cushy she didn't think twice about returning to the world outside of the colony.
    “Olivia will be up soon,” Natalie warned.
    “Yes, she will.” Mar turned to Tomas, “Do explain the laws of the colony to Mr. Martin and let him decide where he would like to end up tomorrow night.” She stepped over him and followed Natalie up the stairs. When they opened the door, a bright light beamed on her, and she could see it was the afternoon sun spilling through the sides of the shutters.
    “That shutter must be fixed,” she said to Natalie. “Excuse me while I clean up.”
    Natalie stepped out of her way and Mar walked off, disappearing into the darkness of the cavernous house.
     
    “ What are you doing?” asked a little girl no more than five years old.
    “ Go away Olivia,” said another girl, shoving her against the wall. The girl's blonde hair was in two cornrows, red ribbons dangling on the ends. She stood a few inches taller than Olivia but was on the tips of her toes, forcing herself up higher over a desk. She spread her palms across the desk, flinging papers to the side in search of something.
    “ My mom will catch us Felicity!”
    “ No, she'll catch you because you can't run that fast!” Felicity teased.
    “ I can!”
    “ No, you can't. You're so slow Olivia.”
    Olivia stomped her feet in protest and poked her lip out angry that Felicity continued to treat her like a baby despite only being two years younger than her. She knew she wasn't a baby but Felicity just wouldn't stop. Soon Noah, who was just a few days younger than her had begun calling her baby as well since she didn't want to upset her mother. Her mother rarely got upset though, so Olivia didn't have much to worry about. In fact, most of the time her mother was nothing but cheerful, taking Olivia in her arms and swarming her with love and kisses. It felt good to be the center of her mother's affection which was certainly different from how she treated Felicity and the other children. There was an older child, Seth, who was seventeen and was getting ready for his hunt or as he liked to say behind closed doors—ready for freedom. There weren't any other children his age so he was forced to lay out his master plan to a bunch of kids who really didn't know what he was talking about. Seth would go on and on about how he hated it in the colony but Olivia could never understand him. She was fed and she enjoyed hanging out with her friends, even if only at night, and most of all she had her mother there to love her unconditionally in the absence of her father. He would leave for extended periods of time and then he would come back briefly only to leave the next night until one night, he left and never returned.
    It wasn't too bad for Olivia considering the most she had ever seen of her father was the back of his head as he was leaving but even at five years old she could sense her mother's pain from it all. Felicity yanked something off the desk and