"If you decide to come with us, under- stand that there will be no place to turn back once we start," the former slave said.

"They don't know what the word means yet," the former slave said.

"There he is," said the slave, pointing in our direction.

She had heard other slaves say that sometimes they would bring you to the big rock and let you go.

The slave does not say, "Are these chains worthy of me?"

Do you have any evidence, except what the slaves said?

The other slaves say he was a quiet man, keeping to himself.

"But the slaves said the Guardian was looking for her sister there."

All the slaves say that he didn't even know about this place before that.

She blinked hard and tried to remember what Charmar's slave had said.