Chapter six: Broken Collars

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Once I made it real cozy in the cave, I told my brother that he should get some rest. The sun was setting. He climbed onto his special leaf pad I made for us. I laid down next to him. We both slept.
I woke up before my brother so I decided do try to find something for us to eat. We're both dogs so we eat meat and bones, but all I could retrieve was some leaves and water. It was good enough. He woke up and came out side where I was setting up the food.
"Sister, can I call you Notoka?" He asked me.
This puzzled me because that's my name and didn't have to ask. "Yes. You know, you didn't have to ask." I told him. I was kinda sad because I liked it when he calls me sister. Oh well. "What are we eating?" He whimpered. "Well," I started. "Um, hope you like greens, we're eating, u-um-" my brother quickly cut me off and said "it's fine! I don't mind leaves."
I gave him a puzzling look as he began to to the leaves. "Oh well." I thought to myself as I began to crunch on some leaves. I thought about how to sneak back into the base camp thingy I escaped from. "Hey, Johnathan," I call my brother. He looks up with leaves overflowing from his mouth. "I'm making a mission, and you're helping me. We're gonna sneak back into that camp thingy over there-" that's when he cut me off and informed me, "oh that camp thingy, it has a name...I think it's called Nova. Yeah Nova is the name of the camp!" This was strange because we're not in northern Virginia. "Ok well, I need a name for the mission ok? Can help make a name?" I asked him.
"Ok. How about mission Trapped in Nova?" He suggested.
"Or how about mission Nova?" He looked at me with an understanding look and nodded his head. After about 30 minutes of explaining and repeating the plan to my brother, we prepare. I take some of the water we didn't drink and some dirt and made mud. Then I carefully ripped a price of my skirt off and tied it to a stick. When I reached to pull my collar off and I noticed that it wasn't there.

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