The man made her skin crawl. His habit of trying to bait herand the others who were well born, tooby subtly lording it over them added another layer of grating irritation.
But they had all long ago resolved not to reactnot to play the mouse to Duboiss cat. As he enjoyed the hunt so much, he tended to let them gothe better to taunt them the next time.
Descending once more to the dust of the compound, she drew in a deep breathand finally allowed everything shed learned in the jungle that morning to surge to the forefront of her brain.
Rescue was on the way. They hadnt been forgotten.
She felt hope, real hope, bubbling up insidea startling, entirely unexpected upwelling of an emotion shed thought excised from her soul.
She remained where she was, staring unseeing out of the gates while she considered who she should speak with first, what was most important to be communicated, and how best to achieve that.
Over and above all other considerations, she resolved that, whatever steps she and subsequently the other captives took, they would need to ensure they did absolutely nothing to jeopardize the safety of Captain Caleb Frobisher and his menfor all their sakes.