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beautiful
    young lady who played on her glider while long golden hair flew out behind her.”
     
    Ana was eternally grateful for her headscarf when she blushed deeply at his
    flirtatious comment. Many Runners as well as Gothman had made sexual advances
    toward her. But this was a man…a good-looking man.
     
    “You were watching me,” she said boldly, although she didn’t feel too confident.
    For some reason, she didn’t wish to indulge in her usual cockiness that she displayed
    around her peers. “I saw you watching me when I looked through my viewer. That’s
     
    why I came here.”
     
    His eyebrows raised but his smile didn’t disappear. “You came here to find me?”
     
    “I wanted to know who you were and what you were doing up here.”
     
    “Oh, I see.” He almost sounded disappointed. “We are Tree People and the
    Barringswood tribe is the most powerful in our nation. When my brother returns we
    will fly to our home on other side of the mountains.”
     
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    “The other side of the mountains?” Ana looked at the rocks hovering above her.
    “What’s it like over there?” She almost whispered the question and it brought a wide
    smile to Roth’s face.
     
    “You are an adventurer, aren’t you?”
     
    She turned and smiled at him in spite of herself. “Do a very large number of people
    live over there?”
     
    “A very large number. Maybe you would like to see it some day.” He jumped off
    the rock at that moment and she automatically braced herself defensively.
     
    “You are an adventurer and a trained warrior.” He spread his arms out, palms up,
    as if approaching a wild animal. “I have no plans to hurt you.”
     
    She looked up at the tall man standing in front of her. He was definitely tall, she
    was sure the top of her head might possibly come to his chin. His chest was broad, but
    he wasn’t built like her father, or brother, or even her uncle. He was lean, not large, but
    somehow still looked powerful.
     
    Ana’s comm, which still hung around her ear, beeped and when she flipped it on.
    Roth took a step to the side as if trying to see through the small holes in her face cloak
     
    where her eyes were.
     
    “What is it?” she spoke quietly.
     
    “You are talking to one of your people?” Roth asked as he took a step closer.
     
    She nodded her head and listened as her brother spoke into her ear.
     
    “Ana, you need to come home. The guards sent to bring you home from Taratown
    have found the bug that should have been on your bike. Uncle Torgo just finished
    bombarding me with questions. If you hurry, you might get here before Mama and
    Papa get here.” Her brother spoke quietly and she knew he chanced contacting her. Oh,
    she owed her brother a very large debt.
     
    “Where are they?” Her eyes once again locked with Roth’s.
     
    “They’re having an audience with people from the other side of the mountains.
    They call themselves Tree People. More than likely, your man is one of those people.”
     
    “He is.”
     
    “You’ve met him?”
     
    “He’s standing right in front of me.”
     
    “I look forward to hearing of your adventure…if you live long enough to tell me of
     
    it.” When Andru spoke with authority, he sounded dangerously like their papa. “Come
    home now.”
     
    Ana laughed and Roth gave her a questioning smile. “You worry like a woman. But
    I’m in your debt, and I’ll leave now.”
     
    Ana turned off her comm, and looked at Roth. “I have to go now.”
     
    “Is there a problem?” Roth sounded sincerely curious.
     
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    “Only that no one but my brother knows my true whereabouts,” Ana admitted,
    suddenly feeling like a very young girl in front of this handsome man.
     
    “Ah, I see. You have a brother who will lie to protect you. And you, most likely,
    would defend him to the death.” Roth nodded understandingly.
     
    “You are right. I wish I could stay and share