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Beyond My Knowing, chapter 26

As she knelt down by their supplies, Tresit and Lanam came back inside and she smiled over to her son who hesitantly smiled back a little. He looked a little haunted still, but more at peace, and, Kes realized, that’s probably how she herself was feeling in general too.
She started setting things out and her family gathered around like they usually did to eat. Kes noticed, of course, that their supplies were getting dangerously low. Artem and Lingen’s supplies had helped matters some, but there still wasn’t as much food and water to go around as Kes would like to be able to provide. They’d have to go out again tomorrow. That meant leaving Artem here with Anara and Lanam…
She looked over at Artem then as she finished passing out the food. He was blinking his eyes back to wakefulness. He was still gaged… Kes felt guilty about that, but she couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t yell for help at the top of his lungs if she took the gag away. It wasn’t likely that anyone would hear him, but, if the wind were right, she couldn’t say for completely certain that they wouldn’t. Would anyone come looking for Lingen or Artem? Was it possible that they might be looking even now? She knew from Lingen’s mind that Yanjik had a position aboard one of the Kazon’s battle ships that traveled between the stars out there somewhere beyond the sky, but would anyone else care enough to miss them and go searching? She didn’t know, and Anara couldn’t guess for sure either way either. It depended on how well-liked Tulk and Lingen had been.
From Anara’s memories of him, Kes knew that Tulk was… a manipulative sort of person, but also he didn’t trust very much either and kept his friends close. Lingen, for his part, had liked to drink, fight, and make noise. He’d made enemies that way, he would have had to, but might he also not have made friends? The kind of friends that would come out looking to avenge him if only for an excuse to slate a habit for violence that was a match for Lingen’s own? There was no way to know. Maybe she should have gone looking more around Lingen’s mind, she considered… but she hadn’t exactly been thinking clearly when she’d had the opportunity. The memory of sliding that knife into his throat came back to the fore of her mind again, and the sound he’d made… Tresit had been right… the sound was one of the worst things. She closed her eyes and looked back to Artem, meeting his eyes. He looked weary and scared. Not angry anymore. He looked young. She sighed. She couldn’t do this. She couldn’t keep that gang on him anymore. Not if she didn’t absolutely have to.
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Welcome back,missed readng this story.Now that ARTEM knows and believes what he has seen maybe this will be the beginning of a new life for the four of them,but is this a trick to get them to lower their guard down?KES and ANARA are becoming one person.THANKS for update