I rushed to hug my second daughter and her sisters. Kennedy hugged me, but looked over my head at Hannah.

“We haven't taken her to the viewing room yet," Hannah said and Kennedy sighed.

I looked between them and saw Kennedy's mouth draw tight around her fangs.

Hannah spoke and it was certainly defensive, “I had to tell her about Daddy, this one is yours."

I didn't know what they were talking about until Kennedy demanded that Hannah go get Evan. I would want him present for this.

Tears ran down my face and I knew something had happened to my boy. My little Jonathan had to be the reason for all this. In my panic I couldn't even hear them talking, until Rose scolded them loudly for scaring me.

“Is he hurt?" I asked looking between Kennedy and her Sisters.

“Is he dead? Did the women torture him?"

ALL of them rushed to soothe me, “No, Mama," Kennedy said.

“The issue is we can not take him. It was put to a vote and it was determined that a family of children should not be removed from the Child Keepers. Nu-reeh has no reason to harm Jonathan, because he has no knowledge and his owners would not permit it besides.

The issue is that if we start rescuing sons of the revolution, the women Like Nu-reeh will not let our boys join with their families. We have an uneasy truce regarding the boys right now. That just cannot be endangered."

My breathing slowed and I leaned on the wall. Hannah disappeared with Ra, presumably to go get Evan.

"The rebels in the camps had already found a way to access the cameras the slaving women use to monitor the boys. Hannah and I thought it would be good for you to see Jonathan," Kennedy explained.

“You can't save him?" I asked quietly still fighting the desire to scream and cry.

I would never be with my little boy again.

"No, not now, perhaps one day..." Kennedy trailed off looking uncomfortable.

Nodding silently, I looked up at my daughter and sought to accept this latest blow to my Life.

I followed Kennedy into the Administrator's main room. She took us into a smaller room and we waited.

“Jonathan is in a compound near the one you were at, Mama. The men call the mountain near it the red mountains, we call them the T'ylene Mountains. The compound is called the Barnas compound. It is about as far from us here as the T'aran Mountains and the Caras compound you were in. Right now, you reside in the T'lynien Mountains," Kennedy explained politely.

I nodded and stared at her, just trying to process how close and yet how far away Jonathan was.

Damien and his Brothers came in a few moments Later with Hannah. Hassar followed the entire group in.

“This is not appropriate,“ she growled looking between Hannah and Kennedy. "I do not want them contacting the woman they used as a slave."