THE HIDDENS

Chapter 3

With what I ask in my head. I see this poor girl has endured a lot.
"It's the empire" she mutters.
The second she utters those words I feel as if I will faint. It all makes sense. The empire never has liked our village. So free flowing and non abiding to their rules. We let women and children do what they want. After all my mom was a teacher. Crying and tears still dripping down her noes.
"They burnt down our down to teach us a..a lesson" she stutters.
then I realize what I have to do.
"Listen if you follow me I will show you our loft we have food animals and shelter".
But that is about all I can provide.  Right away she wipes the tears off her face and hugs me.
"Are you sure."I nod.
She races off to collect the group.
"Follow her" she yells over the whispers.

We made it back to the loft. The children are all sleeping on the hay.
Both cute and hilarious snores are escaping the little adorable lips. I sigh, today was nice and all but I'm only one step closer to knowing anything about these kids parents and mine. Climbing down the ladder I feed the 3 Ps(our chickens nickname)Majestic and our horses. Then checkin on Jack I turn towards Bob and rub his nose.
"Good job buddy" I whisper in his velvety ears.
We tied the to toddlers on his back who were either slow walkers or couldn't walk. The babies that were lighter the older kids held. Still shocked about what happened today I climb back up the ladder and find an empty hay bale.
I wake up my eyes are only half open, what is that sound? Oh wait its coming back to me. The kids and that girl are all living here now. I am now awake looking around seeing about 30 different kids all different ages running around. Over in the corner i see a red headed girl trying to take Anne from my sister. I walk over to them.

"Guys whats going on?" I ask.

The older girl or Princess as i now know her name is walks over too us (she is also 13).

"Millie What are you doing" She asks the red head.

"I just want a dolly like her too Princey." Millie exclaims sadly.

All of a sudden i have an idea. I whisper to Princess and she claps her hands. Every body sits down immediately and silently.

"Hi guys i'm Aino do you like my loft?" I got some giggles for that.

"Starting tomorrow instead of chaos you will be doing something. those things are called classes. They are sewing,hunting, milking Majestic,tanning hides,cooking cleaning ,reading, writing, math outdoor survival and tending the sick and wounded."

"The last 2 you do if you are 8 or older. The 5 before that you have to do then you have 2 choices out of the rest. If you know how to read or write come talk to me. Tomorrow ages 4 and up will start." "We will wake you up and split you into groups. Now today you can play tomorrow work begins and if I decide you are perfect for my special class I will talk to you personally."

With what I ask in my head. I see this poor girl has endured a lot.

"It's the empire" she mutters.

The second she utters those words I feel as if I will faint. It all makes sense. The empire never has liked our village. So free flowing and non abiding to their rules. We let women and children do what they want. After all my mom was a teacher. Crying and tears still dripping down her noes.

"They burnt down our down to teach us a..a lesson" she stutters.

then I realize what I have to do.

"Listen if you follow me I will show you our loft we have food animals and shelter".

But that is about all I can provide. Right away she wipes the tears off her face and hugs me.

"Are you sure."I nod.

She races off to collect the group.

"Follow her" she yells over the whispers.

We made it back to the loft. The children are all sleeping on the hay.

Both cute and hilarious snores are escaping the little adorable lips. I sigh, today was nice and all but I'm only one step closer to knowing anything about these kids parents and mine. Climbing down the ladder I feed the 3 Ps(our chickens nickname)Majestic and our horses. Then checkin on Jack I turn towards Bob and rub his nose.

"Good job buddy" I whisper in his velvety ears.

We tied the to toddlers on his back who were either slow walkers or couldn't walk. The babies that were lighter the older kids held. Still shocked about what happened today I climb back up the ladder and find an empty hay bale.

I wake up my eyes are only half open, what is that sound? Oh wait its coming back to me. The kids and that girl are all living here now. I am now awake looking around seeing about 30 different kids all different ages running around. Over in the corner i see a red headed girl trying to take Anne from my sister. I walk over to them.

"Guys whats going on?" I ask.

The older girl or Princess as i now know her name is walks over too us (she is also 13).

"Millie What are you doing" She asks the red head.

"I just want a dolly like her too Princey." Millie exclaims sadly.

All of a sudden i have an idea. I whisper to Princess and she claps her hands. Every body sits down immediately and silently.

"Hi guys i'm Aino do you like my loft?" I got some giggles for that.

"Starting tomorrow instead of chaos you will be doing something. those things are called classes. They are sewing,hunting, milking Majestic,tanning hides,cooking cleaning ,reading, writing, math outdoor survival and tending the sick and wounded."

"The last 2 you do if you are 8 or older. The 5 before that you have to do then you have 2 choices out of the rest. If you know how to read or write come talk to me. Tomorrow ages 4 and up will start." "We will wake you up and split you into groups. Now today you can play tomorrow work begins and if I decide you are perfect for my special class I will talk to you personally."