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    “It doesn’t matter,” she argued. “I go where you go. That is what Jinghar means.”
    Sighing heavily, he gave up. He knew that it would be easier to talk Zadok into taking his army away than convince her to stay behind. But Dor and Tam were something else entirely. “Fine,” he said to Jne and then focused on his two friends. “You two may go but only if you agree to stay there.”
    “Really?” Tam huffed.
    Dor cut her off. “I am not your Jinghar or whatever it is Jne is to you. I will come and go as I please with or without your permission. We are friends, Thane, and you need me this time. Maybe you are forgetting what brought us all here in the first place. I’m not so sure that you won’t be shot on sight either.”
    Braxton shot a questioning look at Jack, but his friend just shook his head slightly while Teek and Domis were all eyes and ears enjoying every bit of the exchange.
    “I don’t plan to just walk into camp and let them shoot me, Dor,” he replied rather calmly.
    “Really, then I assume you have some sort of plan?” Tam put in.
    He shrugged. “Well, no, not yet, but…”
    “Then you’ll need our help,” Dor interjected, cutting him off.
    He shook his head and muttered something under his breath. “We still don’t know if Teek’s bird can even carry all of us.”
    “Her name’s Tchee,” Teek suddenly added.
    “Right,” Thane said. “Tchee.”
    “Well then,” Jne interjected, “you’d better hurry and ask so we can be on our way.”
    Thane threw up his hands. He couldn’t believe this. It was like he was still home and being bullied by PocMar and his friends. He looked to Jack for support, but his friend wisely stayed out of this argument. To him it wasn’t important who went on this mission as long as they brought back this arrow they had spoken of and that it really did work as they said. He had to admit that it was a little hard to take in and believe, but in desperate times like they found themselves, all options became viable.
    Thane turned to Teek. “Where is your large friend, Tchee?”
    Teek rolled his shoulders up to his ears. “I don’t know. She comes and goes as she pleases.”
    “Then in the meantime let us cease our idleness here and help get these people to the city where they can be better cared for,” Braxton said.
    “You will let me know when she returns then?” Thane asked Teek.
    “Yes sir, Master Thane. I will at that and right away.”
    He smiled. “Thank you, Teek, and please stop calling me Master. Just Thane will do nicely.” It bothered him when people made a fuss about him. He was not used to such positive attention and since he started receiving it he decided that he almost preferred the opposite. He didn’t want anyone thinking he was more than he was or that he felt like he was better than any other person doing all in their power to protect those in need. It was especially strange hearing such praise from someone like Teek who was, after all, close to his own age.
    Their course of action decided, the group began to disperse in different directions. “You will let me know when you plan to leave,” Jack said to Thane in a tone that made it hard to decipher as to whether it was a request or a command. Thane just nodded and then turned to make his way through the crowd that, as a whole, was beginning to move east toward the distant city when he was stopped by someone grabbing his arm. It was Tam. She smiled at him and he suddenly found it difficult to breath.
    “Can I walk with you a minute and talk?”
    He looked for Dor but only caught sight of his back as he walked away and into the crowd. Jne was still at his side, as she always was, and the look on her face would have frozen boiling water. “I really should help with moving the camp,” he tried lamely to protest, but Tam would not be deterred. Although she was smiling, he recognized that stubborn look in her eyes that told