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safety.
                  The first battle in the new war had been won.

Ally
     
                  Ally smiled and did everything she could to bite back a laugh. Coby, on the other hand, was laughing so hard he was crying. Adam rode ahead of them and was dangling sideways off the saddle, bouncing all the way. Coby continued to giggle and hid his face in the back of Dena, who much to Ally’s surprise, also had a small smile on her face. Adam continued to slide further and further until he fell out of the saddle and flopped onto the ground, causing Coby to let out a squeal of joy. Adam’s horse walked a few more feet and then stopped.
                  “Daddy, you’re dumb,” Coby said as he tried to catch his breath.
                  Adam straightened his glasses and looked up with a goofy smile on his face. “I told you I forgot how to ride a horse.” He got up, dusted himself off and then walked over to his horse. The man put his foot in the stirrup and pulled himself halfway up, where he just stopped and pretended he didn’t know what to do next.
                  “Dad!” Coby squealed.
                  Ally watched as Dena looked off in the distance and the small smile crumbled away. “Adam, we need to go. We’re wasting time.”
                  Adam’s smile also disappeared but was replaced by a forced one. “Of course.”
                  “But we were having fun, Mom,” Coby grumbled.
                  “We’re nearly there,” Dena said and spurred her horse forward.
                  They moved ahead, still avoiding the main highway, but they still kept within sight of it. It made following the map easier.
                  “Hey Ally,” Coby said as her horse pulled up alongside him.
                  “What’s up?” Ally asked, slightly surprised the boy was talking to her. The boy hadn’t said more than a few words to her since the incident with Spence.
                  “Did you like going to school?”
                  Ally thought back and it felt like a different lifetime. Now when she thought about school she thought about all the useful supplies she could probably find there. But she dug further back and memories of recess and playing with her friends began to surface. “Yeah, I used to like it a lot.”
                  Coby wrinkled up his nose. “Really? You liked school? You’re weird.”
                  She laughed. “I’m not weird. You didn’t like playing with your friends?”
                  “Yeah, but I could play with them at home. I didn’t need to go to school to play with them.”
                  “Now Coby, don’t say that, you used to like going to school to learn,” Dena said, glancing back at him.
                  Coby rolled his eyes and they continued traveling in silence for a few minutes. Finally the curiosity got the better of her.
                  “Why did you ask?”
                  Coby shrugged his shoulders. “Just because. I didn’t use to like school but I kind of miss it. Does that make me weird?”
                  “No,” Ally said. “I still think you are weird but not because of that.”
                  Coby smiled and laid his head on Dena’s back.
                  The sound of vehicles in the distance made their way to them. Ally looked back and could see a line of Humvees in the distance. They were on a hill that overlooked the highway and it was unlikely that whoever was driving the vehicles would notice them; regardless, they led the horses farther away from the highway and stopped.
                  “How many are there?” Coby asked.
                  No one answered. Instead they waited until the Humvees got closer and then they could make