"What!" Bray, Tessa, and Tristan said in unison. I noticed a most of the older Mallrats, oh wait I guess it would be Nightfalls, but if feels so weird. Anyway, they didn't react like this either. I'm pretty sure they had a good idea who was here with us too, just like me. We had left them behind, you know, in city. I'm not talking about a certain tribe, even though there are probably some that dislike us. No, I'm talking about everyone that we left behind. I mean, there wasn't enough room on the boat for everyone in the city! Well, I'm pretty sure they were mad when we left. They thought, "The Mallrats will protect us, they have through everything else." But nope. We left, and that probably stirred up a lot of anger. Over the past few years, it's probably built some of that anger up into fury. Now they're coming for revenge.

"I suppose some of you have already figured out who they are, by the look on you faces," Amber said while looking around at the tribe member's faces, I followed suit. Everyone very well knew who was after us, but the three who had asked "What?" before looked dazed and confused. Brady kind of knew what was going on, but not fully. "Tessa, Tristan, Bray, we owe you an explanation. We should have told you before that when we left the city, not everyone was happy. Most people were leaving also, but those who weren't, didn't like our decision. They thought we were abandoning them. Most of them probably came to their senses, and left the city. Having us on their minds, they tracked us down. Successfully I might add. But we have an advantage, we know where they are, and they don't know about the hospital. So now we have to think of a plan to keep everyone safe. Any suggestions?" Amber blurted out as if wanting to get it over with as soon as possible.

Tessa looked dumbfounded, Bray looked slightly confused, and Tristan, well, you can never tell what he's thinking about. That, I think, he inherited from his mother. You could tell everything that was going on in Ryan's head.

"We could surprise them and attack," Lex offered quickly. Good old Lex, always thinking about the violent way out.

Thankfully, Jay said, contradicting him, "No way. I went with Amber and saw how many we would be up against. There are way more of them than there is of us."

"How many?" I questioned.

"At least fifty, so that's out of the question," Amber answered for Jay.

"We could always move again," Tessa suggested.

"We've done it before," Lottie added.

"Do you really want to leave just because of them?" Ryan asked. I saw them shake their heads no.

"Well, we know we're not leaving, but we've got to do something."

I remember something in Brady's diary: I saw him three days ago, he looked pretty familiar. He actually looked like me, but in a boy version, weird. But how could that be? Mom said I was her only child. Oh, but what about my dad? Maybe he had another child? Well, maybe I'll ask mom, but not now, maybe I won't even tell anyone. That would cause way too much stress if I did. If he did have another child, why didn't he tell mom?

This pop into my mind, so I asked nervously, "Who are they?"

Amber was surprised at this, "I thought especially you would know who they were."

"I know who they are in general, but who are they ? Like names?" This question surprised her even more. From the looks of it, she hadn't thought of this before.

"Well...umm...we couldn't exactly tell, we never stayed long enough, "Amber answered sheepishly, "We just assumed and..."

"The point is," Jay came to her rescue, " we don't know who they are. They might be dangerous, they might not. We need to prepare for the worst. So, what are we going to do?"

"Maybe we could reason with them," Salene offered, "It always used to work." She was right, it did work, for awhile anyway. It might work this time.

"Yeah, we could at least try that and then attack if we need to," I urged. This was the best idea I had heard so far. Many others agreed too.

"So Amber, O Great Leader, what do you say?" Lex said getting a couple of snickers from the "O Great Leader" comment.

"I have absolutely no idea," Amber said defeated.

"I think is too much for right now. If they haven't attacked yet, why should they now? I think we all need some sleep," Ryan said soothingly. These words were comforting too everyone's ears, we had been talking for so long and it was so late, everyone was tired.

"Even though that sounds so nice, Ryan, we need to think about this a little bit more. How about ten more minutes and then we'll go to sleep. OK?" I could tell Amber didn't like keeping her friends awake, but she had to.

Everyone was deep in thought, when all of a sudden I heard someone behind us, "Well, what about actually seeing if they're dangerous before going to the extremes? And not expect the worst? I'm sure that will work," We turned around to find a grinning stranger staring back at us, but he wasn't really a stranger, or at least he looked like someone a couple of us used to know.

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