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are coming. This reminds me of some of the missions that Tim and I have been on. Sara looks at me and asks me if this feels more like home to me. The unit Tim and I were in rescued her when her plane got shot down in a war zone. That was only a little over a year ago, but it seems like such a long time ago. I was going to say worlds ago, but it really was.
    I turn to look behind us and when I turn back forward again I am startled by a young woman, who almost runs into the side of the van. She is disheveled like she is running away from something or someone and is about at the end of her endurance. Carol says she knows that girl, who is trying to run around the van, to get away from us. Carol, Ray, and I jump out of the van and Carol calls to her that we are friends. She looks extremely frightened and unsure whether or not to believe us. The next thing I know, I am face to face with a very dirty man carrying a gun, obviously following the young lady. He is as startled as I am, but I am better trained because I strike out with my forearm and elbow knocking him to the ground. He is not out though and is scrambling to get his gun around to bear on me when I hear the whistling sound of an arrow going past my ear, and see an arrow sticking through the dirty man.
    My first fear is that they are traveling together and now we have killed her husband, but she finally relaxes and all but falls into Carols arms. She is sobbing almost uncontrollably trying to tell Carol what happened. We give her some water and let her sit in the van, where at least she is comfortable, and can catch her breath. Finally she can tell us what we need to know. She was apparently working in the fields and overheard the dirty guy telling one of the other guards that he was going to take her back to the barn and teach her some manners. We all understand what he meant. She says when he unlocked the leg irons she pushed him down and took off running. She ran for what seemed like a long time, all the while the dirty guy kept yelling for her to stop because he would just hurt her more when he finally catches her. She says she was just about ready to give up, because she couldn’t run anymore, when she ran into us. At first she thought that she had run into some of the others, even though she has never seen the vehicles.
    She eats the food we give her like she is starving and probably is. We can finally ask her where the others are, how many of them are there, and how many captors are there. She says they brought two more girls in last week, which makes it fifty-three. Thirty-three are women or girls and twenty are men or boys. She says there are ten guards now, there were more, but a couple days ago several didn’t come back with the others. Carol and Ray tell her we know. They got killed when we tried to capture them. That news makes her have more hope. Sometimes when you are treated badly by others, you have a tendency to think of them as being invincible. She can see that the one chasing her wasn’t. Speaking of that we better get somewhere out of sight before they come looking for their compatriot. We go back the way we came about a mile. There is a place I remembered seeing on the way in where we can get the vehicles out of sight behind some brush.
    She can finally tell us approximately where the farm is that we are looking for. She says they keep the prisoners chained wherever they are. In the fields they have chains running down the aisles that they work in and in the barn, where they sleep, they chain them in a stall. She says that they have been very busy picking vegetables and fruit. They aren’t allowed to eat any while they are picking. If they get caught they get whipped or worse. Gary, Roy, Dan, and I decide to go in on foot. Ray says he would like to go, but I hesitate to leave the women and the vehicles unguarded. Besides I know all the men with me, I don’t know how he will react if he has to kill someone. Actually, in this case it’s when, we