Back at the camp Morgan and Baines had been released from the restraints but were still isolated from the rest of the group. So they sat confined in the tent, desperately trying to remember what had happened.
"You remember anything?" Baines asked.
"Just bits, images and flashes." Morgan said. "But nothing that makes any sense. You?"
"The same. It is like recalling a dream you know? Nothing makes sense and none of it seems real."
"I really wish it weren't real." Morgan said. "I can't believe we could have been tricked so easily."
"I can't believe we can't remember doing something like that." Baines said.
Morgan stood up and started pacing. "There must be some way to remember what happened. I mean it is all in here somewhere." He said pointing to his temple. "And a brain is just a computer, so we should be able to extract the information."
"I don't even remember them tying Julia up." Baines replied. "I mean you think we would have noticed something like that."
"We split up." Morgan said as a memory flashed up in his mind. "They asked for help, something about someone being sick…"
"You didn't want to get exposed so we stayed with their leader…..Ronald." Baines said as he too started to remember.
"Yeah, but it wasn't Ronald, it was Remus." Morgan said as he snapped his fingers, "We were talking and I remember feeling light headed."
"It was as if everything was happening really quickly and my mind couldn't keep up." Baines said.
"We moved somewhere else and Julia was there, tied up on the floor. Remus started talking…"
"It all seemed to make sense." Baines interrupted. "I mean I remember believing everything."
"How could we not question him?" Morgan asked, repulsed by their actions. "We are meant to be Julia's friends, but we sold her out. We are no better than the Council." He added as he sat down and held his head in his hands.
"Why can't we remember what happened after the recording?" Baines asked. "I mean I can see what happened, but I can't. Does that even make sense?"
"As much as I hate to give credence to that incoherent sentence, yes it does." Morgan replied as he stood up and started to pace again. After a pause he started to speak. "I remember us agreeing with him and we talked." He said as he waved his finger in the air. "We talked about….I can't remember."
"About what to do with Julia." Baines said. A silence followed before Baines spoke again. "Hate, I remember feeling hate. Really strong hate and anger."
"It was blinding." Morgan agreed as he again tried to extract his own memories. "Then Remus asked us what we were going to do about her."
"We told him what we did last time." Baines said.
"But that wasn't enough for him. He said she would be picked up by the Council so we were not punishing her." Morgan said, scrunching his eyes shut, desperately trying to extract the information.
"Oh god." Morgan finally exclaimed all colour draining from his face as he went to the tent entrance where he met an armed Magnus. "We have to talk to the search party now."
"You can't." Magnus replied, anger still evident in her voice.
"Magnus I remember. I have to talk to them." Morgan shouted causing Bess to approach the tent.
"You can't talk to them because they are out of radio contact." Magnus explained.
"Morgan, what do you remember?" Bess asked. "Do you know what happened to Julia? Where is she?"
"Oh Bess, you have to make contact with the search party. Julia needs help." Morgan said on the verge of tears.
"Morgan calm down. What happened? What do you remember?" Bess asked worried by her husband's outburst.
"He wanted to know how to punish Julia for her crimes." Baines spoke up. "We told him about how we abandoned her last time, but he said she would be picked up so it was not really a punishment. He asked if we all agreed to that last time and Morgan-"
"I told him I suggested dragging her along behind the transrover." Morgan interrupted. "So we tied her to the back of the rail and dragged her for miles. She was screaming in pain, but we didn't stop. Remus kept shouting and taunting her, but we kept going. Then the screaming stopped and so did we. We untied her and found a cave, where we just abandoned her." Morgan said, tears rolling down his cheeks. As he looked into Bess's eyes and saw the utter disgust he collapsed on the ground.
Magnus recovered from the shock of the revelation first. "Where did you leave her? Can you show us on a map?" She asked. Not waiting for a response she sprinted away from the tent to collect the maps.
