Chapter Eight
Trouble
"Dark Gu-!"
Miranda gasped and clapped a hand over Hikaru's mouth, hissing, "Be quiet! They'll hear you!" The three children stared out from the brush as the Dark Gundam soldiers moved around seemingly in an aimless fashion, and wondered how they were supposed to get past them.
"We should've seen this coming," Akki whispered. "I mean, we knew Dad was trying to box everyone in. What did we think we were gonna do, just sneak past?"
"We could try that," Miranda whispered, slowly uncurling her fingers from over Hikaru's mouth. The moonlight made her gray eyes silvery, and her hair midnight black. "We should try that, actually, if we really want to get away."
"Why are we trying to get away?" Hikaru whispered. "Uncle Domon didn't really mean all that stuff about not wanting us, did he?"
"You didn't hear him, Sis," Akki hissed under his breath. The three hunkered lower when a perimeter light swept towards them and over their heads. "You didn't hear him. He was serious, he meant it. And that means he's gonna send us back to the colony."
"It does?" Hikaru cried, and all three ducked down to the ground when some of the soldiers turned in their direction. The undergrowth, thick and lush, hid them. Hikaru bit her tongue when a beetle crawled over her hand.
"Yeah," Akki breathed, so soft the girls could barely hear him. "And you know what that means. More tests, more needles and tests. Then jail."
"They're not going to throw us in jail," Miranda said firmly. "Come on, the coast is clear. Let's book it."
And they dashed around the perimeter of the Dark Gundam encampment, sticking to the trees, ducking beneath the lights, running and running as their father had taught them- pace yourself, don't overwork, you've got to last, even out your breathing, keep moving- until suddenly, just as they were about to reach a break in the enemy lines, Akki stumbled, fell, and cried out as the radius, a bone in his arm, snapped cleanly in half.
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