Kansas took in my words but said nothing. He knew as well as I did that once the Family decided something, they wouldn’t go back on it. We wouldn’t be eating until they decided our punishment was over. It’d been five days. “They’ll come soon. I know it,” he reassured me. We came here together years ago. We were raised with the Family, despite not knowing any of them. We shared all of what we could glean from them with each other. They weren’t coming. “Come on, we’ll get some more water.” He pulled me up with him. “And then we’ll sleep. It saves energy.”
