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Hope floated in close under her own emersion. We were towards the front of the ship and I could see the other vessels with our group aboard lined up along the length of the ship too. There were already ladders on the side of the ship. Ropes with a kind of basket thing were tossed down for us to put our belongings in to and these were hauled aboard. We climbed up the ladder and aboard the ship with the Blue sash behind us.
    Once we were on board we were met by two other armed men, again with Blue sashes. We were escorted to a doorway and lead along several corridors until we arrived at what I guessed was our destination.
    Quarantine, one of the men grumbled, you’ll be kept here for a few days until we know you’re not infected, then we’ll take you to your quarters.
    We entered the room. It wasn’t very big. There were two sets of bunk beds against one wall. A wash basin and toilet against another wall with like a shower curtain you could pull round for some privacy. There were no windows, only the door we’d entered through which had a small hatch in it which was locked shut. There was a bookcase against the third wall with books and games on it for the children I guessed.
    We were told that is was protocol to protect everyone else on board and that we’d be provided with meals and they’d try to give us with anything else we required. I asked if my Brother knew we’d been found and they said he was aware we were aboard and would be down to see us once he’d finished his duties. I was told the rest of our group was together in other quarantine rooms not far away. I guessed that was fair enough. Better to be safe. I wondered if Frank and George had been in one of these rooms at some point and were now out and about and knew we were on board. Maybe they’d told the Navy about us and that’s why we’d been found. I felt on edge, nervous, not safe anymore, something just didn’t feel right to me, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I decided to play along for now; I didn’t have a great deal of choice in the matter anyway!
    The two sashes left the room; this is what I’d decided in my head to call them. I heard them turning a key in the lock so we couldn’t get out. We were trapped now and at the mercy of the Royal Navy. I think I preferred it when we were in charge of our own safety and destiny on the site. But we were here now and had to make the most of it for now.
    Chapter Eleven
    Babs and I set about making the room as comfortable as we could for the children. We made up the beds and Luke and Emily were playing quite happily with some toys from the book case, it was just a big adventure for them I guess.
    We were fed a meal of fish and rice later in the day. It was bought to us by the sashes that looked through the hatch in the door before entering, to see if we were still human I figured. We felt like prisoners to be honest and not patients. I asked about my Brother again, but got the same response as before. If it wasn’t for the fact that the two officers on the beach had known his Navy nick name, I’d have doubted he was even aboard. I guess they were just being extra careful.
    I wondered how long it took for someone who had been bitten to become a zombie. Ben hadn’t been dead long when he’d tuned. But I hadn’t actually seen someone who was still alive and had been bitten turn. Frank had been bitten and had survived the night without turning. I was assuming that everyone that was bitten turned, that’s what happened in the movies anyway. Unless of course you got to them quick enough and chopped off the infected limb! I supposed the Navy would have that experience by now and we’d be freed once that time was up.
    This went on for several further days, always two sashes, always three meals a day and never giving us any information. The children were getting restless, they’d gone from living in a holiday park to a room no bigger than their bedroom at home in Togston. We kept telling them