They walk through the forest for an hour until joyfully finding a brook with real water and fish. One day, Rose asks French to go look for mushrooms with her. On the way, they find markings in a tree from their written language, and believe they may be getting closer. The group decides to try to find the Indigenous resistance movement in Espanola, so as to get information about which school the Recruiters may have taken Minerva to. But French refuses, saying he will instead go after Minerva, who was taken southward. The group packs up Minerva’s leftover belongings, among which they marvel at jingles she fabricated from can lids. They throw hay to the ground to cushion their landing. In the morning the group realizes that Minerva hid the ladder in the middle of the night because she knew the Recruiters were coming. The Recruiters pull up in their vans and Minerva is able to quickly smile and signal to the group to stay quiet before the agents take her away. Yet Minerva refuses to go up to the loft, instead insisting on sleeping in the middle of the barn floor. The barn has a ladder leading up to a loft filled with soft hay, where the group decides to bed down. By dusk they detect an old barn in the distance and decide to camp there, since making a fire would be too risky. They detect two Recruiters on the hunt and run practically all day, with the twins carrying Minerva.
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