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wholeheartedly. Her fingers were bleeding from all the effort she’d wasted trying to untie Monica. But she also didn’t think it was a good idea to antagonize the giant, evil, primitive women. “Will you keep it down!” she hissed.
    “ You still think they’ve figured out English?”
    “ I think that didn’t need a fucking translation.”
    Monica snickered. “You said fucking.”
    “ I’m going to choke the life out of you if I manage to get these damned things loose!”
    Monica sniffed and then burst into tears.
    Noelle felt really low. Shuffling around to face her friend, she moved a little closer. “I’m sorry. Don’t cry. We’ll figure this out, ok?”
    “ We’ve already spent three horrible nights here, Noelle. I have a bad feeling about these primitives. I really do.”
    “ Well, let’s don’t talk about it, ok?”
    “ Like that’ll help.”
    “ Scaring the shit out of me isn’t going to help either, damn it!” Noelle snapped.
    After a brief struggle, Monica managed to get a grip on her emotions. “I don’t think they’re going to even try to rescue us,” she whined after a moment. “They could’ve come after us right away—should have! My god! It isn’t as if we don’t have superior weapons!”
    Noelle sighed. “Yeah. I thought about that, but we’re building here. I guess they’re trying to decide what to do about the natives.”
    “ Well, I think they’ve made it pretty fuc … f’ing clear already that they aren’t interested in a peace treaty!” Monica snapped, recovering enough from her tears to get angry all over again.
    That seemed inarguable. Noelle didn’t like to think that they were on their own, but she realized that they were going to have to proceed as if they were. They couldn’t just wait to see if the other colonists mounted a rescue mission or even tried, again, to negotiate a peace treaty and get them back. It wasn’t at all beyond the realms of possibility, unfortunately, that the women that had captured them intended to sacrifice them to their gods.
    She had been heartened that they hadn’t been killed outright or executed immediately after they’d reached the village, but she was afraid, now, to allow herself to think they could count on that as proof that the aliens didn’t have something horrible in mind. Clearly the aliens had had something in mind when they’d captured them instead of killing them outright or they wouldn’t have captured them at all. They would’ve let them scamper inside the colony walls like the others.
    And she didn’t especially want to hang around long enough to find out what the plan was.
    “ I guess it’s probably not likely that we could convince them, now, that we’re resigned to our fate and lull them into a false sense of security.”
    “ After the attempt to escape? And catching you trying to untie me? Probably not. I’d like to think they’re stupid, but ignorance and stupidity aren’t the same thing.”
    “ Ok, so …. We’ve lost the element of surprise. We’ll just have to think of something else.”
    She couldn’t think of anything else, though, and finally decided to try to sleep on it.
    She shifted restlessly for a while and finally managed to find a relatively comfortable position where her face wasn’t burrowed into the stinky fur they’d been given as a bed by wiggling to the edge. The dirt actually wasn’t nearly as offense as the smell of the hide. And once she’d gotten a little more comfortable, she dozed off, exhausted from her fears even more than she was physically drained from their attempt to fight their way to freedom.
    The village woke before daylight. It was the sounds of activity that drew Noelle from her uneasy rest. She discovered that Monica had burrowed tightly against her and was still asleep. She stilled for a few moments, uncomfortable with the thought of rudely waking her friend, but she was more physically uncomfortable the longer she lay still and she finally nudged