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Blossom stirred in her sleep but didnt wake up, Emi curled into Blossom a bit more but stayed asleep.

Star however, had woken up, and she was restless.

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Barry noticed Star had woken up, and just watches curiously what everyone will do. He just sits there, as still as a statue. He might even look like a statue in the dark corner, since it was dark.

Luke starts trying to tip the chair again, but finds that the chair was tied to a pole and wouldn’t tip over. He sighs and just sits there, doing nothing.

*Dylan turned around and put his hand out to block her way out. He seemed scared* No, I'm just going to find something for everyone to eat *Dylan lowered his hand and looked more collected* You stay here. Just in case something happens

*The sunlight hit Benton's face and he began to open his eyes. He turned his face and saw Maddy, curled up in a upwards ball in the corner of the room with a chain around her neck. She watched Benton get up and stretch but refused to look him in the eyes*

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Star heard Dylan get up and pretended to be asleep, but kept and eye open just enough to see what was going on. She listened with baited breath.

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Barry, not really that interested anymore, decides that he should maybe go get a bath or something. He gets up on his hands, but falls down from being a bit tired. He doesn’t move after fighting himself.

Luke starts struggling in his tied up chair, trying to make noise to where the big boss would come or someone would take Luke to them.

*Benton stretched and walked over to a windowed door that lead to a balcony. He looked down towards the city of Telmar. His men had cleaned the streets of the dead and began to set up a wooden stand in front of his home. He smiled and heard Maddy cough behind him. He turned his head and looked at her. Maddy looked away in fear and he began to walk to her until he was right in front of her* Why dont you look me in the eyes? *Maddy didn't respond. A tear hit the ground and bits of it rippled around, some of which hit Benton's foot very gently. Benton put his hand on Maddy's chin and moved her face up to look at his. He saw tears streaming from her eyes, and he smiled. Maddy moved her face away from his hand* May I get some water, master? *Benton smiled and walked out of his room. There stood two guards. Benton looked at one of them* Get her some water, will you?

*The guards looked slightly taken a back but nodded and went turned around to go get Maddy some water. Benton walked back into the room and looked at Maddy. He squatted down and looked at her* You may hate me, and believe me, I would hate someone if they treated me the way I deserved to be treated. But eventually, you will thank me. *Maddy looked up at Benton with teary eyes* Do you really think that? *Benton smiled* Of course *A hair fell out of place on Maddy's face. This annoyed Benton so he moved it back in place with his thumb. He then began to feel her face* And who knows, in a few months time *Benton put his free hand on Maddy's belly* you will thank me for all I've done for you. *One of the guards walked into the doorway* Water sir? *Benton looked up at the guard and nodded, standing up and moving out of the way* Only a ladle and a half, Winters. She will get more later. *Winters nodded and Benton turned around to get a shirt on. Once he was done, he saw Winters spoon feeding Maddy water before he left the room to go into town.*

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Luke was kinda angry that he was just being ignored down here. What if he needed to go to the bathroom, or starved, or maybe died of thirst of hunger. Probably hunger first. He continues trying to break free, then yells out, “Hey! Evil Guinness who caught me and Maddy! Why don’t you show yourself you if chicken! Bagawk!” He waits for an answer.

A guard hears this and enters the place where Luke is being kept and slaps him, then prepares another slap.

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Barry decides to go outside of the hideout, just to get some fresh air and maybe some privacy. He liked to be alone a lot. He goes out and slowly rolls over to somewhere in the forest.

A shadow twinged across the young girls fate. She put her hands down and sighed. "I'm no good at this!" she whines. Her mentor looks her up and down. "Hush Alcora. You must learn. Healing disagreements is our specialty." Alcora looks skeptical, but argues no more with her mentor.

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Barry rolls past Alcora and her mentor somewhere nearby. He said to himself, “I don’t need anyone. Just stay alone and you’ll be fine.” and kept on rolling. He found a low branch and hoisted himself up onto it. He started to whistle.

Alcora's eyes follow Barry. "What the heck?" she asks herself. Her mentor scolds her, telling her not to stare. Alcora flinches but nods. She casts Barry a glance whenever her mentor isn't looking, curious about him. She shook her head and went back to work.

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Barry lays down on the low branch, but then fell off soon after. He legs instinctively curled around the branch, but that hurt them even more now. Some of the cloth on the leg with the wood through it started to turn red, and his other leg felt like it cracked all over again, even though it probably didn’t crack in the first place. “Crap.” he said to himself, still not noticing Alcora.

"Why are you acting so weird?" Gwen asks with a laugh. His fearful look was off-putting to her. "Are you sure you should go alone?-" she is interrupted by him ensuring her that he'll be okay. "...Okay" she tells him after a pause. "Just be safe" she gives him a quick kiss on the lips, putting a hand on his cheek as she does so. She parts away from him, slowly removing her hand. She gives him one last glance before walking back to the bed.

*About 20 minutes later, Dylan arrived back with a deer for everyone. He brought it down into the bunker and placed it on a large stone. He went back into his room to get a proper knife and saw Gwen laying on the bed, peacefully back to sleep. He smiled and grabbed the knife he needed and went to skin the deer for eating.*

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Star got up and streched, deciding that she couldn't sleep. . .or fake sleep any more. She yawned and scratched her back on the wall before walking outside to get soem fresh air. "Mornin' Dylan." She mummbled half awake in passing.

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"Back here again." Rose mutters. "And I swore I'd never step foot in this-" she breaks off. A little ways away, is a rabbit. "Too good to be true." she murmurs, arming her bow. She steps closer and aims, being careful not to disturb the rabbit in any way.

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*Dylan turned and nodded in acknowledgement of Star. He finished skinning the deer and began to cut it up into edible pieces for storing and eventually eating. Once he finished that he started a small fire and began to cook the deer for everyone. By that time, Gwen was up and walking towards him*

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Gwen opens her eyes, the chatter outside waking her up. She groggily walks out of the room and moves towards Star and Dylan. A surprised look appears on her face when she sees the deer. "When you said you were going to get food, I wasn't expecting that. I should really stop underestimating you Dylan" she tells him with a smile.

Sage quietly joins the group. Ever since the attack she hasn't been much of a talker. Memories of the last war floods into her head. She had hoped that this wouldn't have happened again. Unfortunately hope isn't always enough. She had spent most of the night lost in thought, she was trying to think of where they went wrong. So far she cannot find a reasonable answer.

*Dylan laughed* People always use to do that to me when I was a kid, but I hardly mind anymore. Cus you know what they say *Dylan took some of the deer meat off the flame and placed it on a wooden slab to begin cutting and serving it to everyone* I'm full of surprises. *Dylan cut a piece of meat off and began to eat it. He then spit it out and looked at them* Christ that's still raw.

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She shakes her head and laughs. "You're right. You never fail to surprise me Dylan." Gwen sits down next to him and places the meat back on the flames. She waits until the insides are brown before she takes it off. "Tell me more about your childhood" Gwen tells him as she helps cook the rest of the meat.

The smell of meat roused Blossom and Emi. Blossom yawned and sat up as she pushed the hair out of her face and pulled it back. "That smells good."

A four year-old girl with dark dreadlock hair pulled back in pigtails had been wandering aobut. Her adpotive parents had been killed by the Cloaks and she had no idea who her actuall parents were, thankfully most of the Cloaks just ignored her. She contiuned walking until she found Maddy's room, for the moment she was alone so the child carefully creeped closer until she was about a foot away from Maddy. Her dress was torn and dirty and her bare feet were caked in mud and dirt. She looked up at Maddy but didn't say anything as if she was afraid of scaring Maddy away, even though it was most likely going to happen the otherway around.

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