Chapter 8 - THE NEWS

Anna didn't care that the lights were out. She still needed to find caveman. She went outside to see if he was out there. She wasn't sure she should be out there. There were snakes and lizards she was putting her self in some danger. She walked past the councilor's tent. The light was on in there and she could hear voices. The light cast shadows against the back of the tent. Anna went near and listened.

"Well what are we gonna do? We need room for him."

"There's only one thing to do. We need to get ride of one of them. But which one."

"We need to find the right kid or our whole plan will be ruined." This time it was a woman's voice.

"Look of their records and see if any of the kids have no family or relationships. Like if there the warden of the state. Actually find two kids."

"Why, we only need room for one." This was a male voice this time.

Sssssss. Anna turned around there was a rattle snack right behind her. 'What am I gonna do?' thought Anna as her heart pounded.

"What was that?'' asked the female voice. The voices stopped. She could hear the zipper of a tent unzip. There was only one thing she could do. RUN!

BACK IN THE TENT (mourning)

The tents weren't woken up today at there usually time. Everyone slept in until noon.

"What the..." Ashley woke up with a sleepy voice.

"What's happening."

A few minutes Mr.Pendanski, Mr.Sir, and a woman came in.

"Who's that?" Ashley whispered to Anna looking at the woman.

"I don't know." Anna replied just looking at the woman. Squid who overheard their conversation butted in.

"That is the warden. The most powerful person on this desert. You don't want to get in her way. She's tough. I wonder why she's here. It must be really bad." Squid said in a worried voice.

"One of you was out last night." Mr.Sir said. "And your not suppose to be out after the lights are." He yelled. Mr.Pendanski sat there to scared to say anything.

"And you weren't suppose to be out little boys and girls." Said the warden. "You may now have some valuable information now. We have to make sure that information doesn't get out. We wouldn't that out there now would we?" said the warden with a sly smirk on her face.

"Now to prevent that from happening we have laid out some new rules." Oh no what could this mean. They had just gotten over the shovel problem. The state had provided them with another shovel so Ashley could stop digging with her hands. "Now listen and listen carefully." said the warden. "You as Mr. Sir said are not out after dark. We will now put locks on the tent zippers. You will go to bed earlier, wake up earlier both by an hour. There will also be no more wreck room and no more water truck stops until the person comes up to one of us and tells us who does it." With that the warden turned on her heel and the rest followed her. Every one started talking after that. Anna took Ashley away and told her what happened the night before.

"Uh oh." Ashley stated. They were in some deep trouble this time. REVIEW!