“Do you know what is going on out there?” Lieutenant Benson asks.
 
“You mean about the celebration has been going on for the past few days?” The housemother asks, and then answers her own question, “I am aware of it though as to what is happening, I do not know why it is happening.”
 
“I’ll give you the short version of it in two parts.” Lieutenant Benson begins. “First, the war with the slavers is over, a treaty has been signed and expansion of the trade routes have been expanded with use of their airships. That happened days ago when the celebration started. Then, though I do not believe it myself – a discovery has been found to turn most wessens back into humans. I do not know the details, but we will be looking for a cure which will work on most wessens, with the treaty this ends slavery of both humans and wesesn.”
 
Lieutenant Benson pauses to see the housemother’s reaction, and like most who have heard it, seem like she does not believe it. She does asks, “You said most. Why not all wessens?”
 
“I do not know. I’m a law enforcement soldier, not a doctor or a scientist.” Lieutenant Benson answers.
 
“I see.” The housemother says.
 
“The second part is why we are here – the South Town has finally made it through in repairing the train tracks to connect both our towns. They did this work on their own without telling anyone of their plans. But now with the connection of both towns by train, this train station is going to rebuilt. This is why you and everyone here need to leave.” Lieutenant Benson explains, “Like I said, the town council will help out with a place to stay and even a job for you.”
 
The housemother asks. "What about the children? How will this town help them?"
 
“They will be sent to school and if they have no family, join the youth corps where they will be fed, taught, trained and taken care of. If you take care any of them as a family, again, the Town Council can give you a place to live that can support your family. I can tell you it is not going to be easy, but it will be better than what you have here.” Lieutenant Benson explains.
 
“If I choose to stay for as long as possible, how long will we have and what will happen to us if we over stay our welcome?” The housemother asks.
 
“I do not know how long you have. The Town Council is in planning as we speak. They can be bringing in surveyors in a day or two to see what can be rebuilt or reclaimed and what needs to be torn down. Then plans need drawn up and accepted by the Town Council before a construction crew steps foot in here to do their work. All this can take weeks or months, but I will say that it is on the Fast Track to get done as fast as possible. You may have a several days if not a few weeks. And if you are here when construction begins, you and the children here will be arrested.” Lieutenant Benson tells it like it is.
 
Several of the older children come in through a different entrance with a couple of bags of bread, vegetables and fruits that were thrown out by the market because they were either bruised, over ripe or otherwise stale but all of it still edible. As they walk in, they say out loud, “We found some food, Housemother!” But then they notice Moro and Jade with Lieutenant Benson and a few armed men. They freeze in place in fear of what will happen next.

Five of the six older children whom the housemother mentioned came in through a different entrance. One of them is Denver, the grey-feathered Haibane who is already angry at Jade.
 
Denver looks at Jade and at Moro whom she recognizes as the one who told her and the other older kids to scram. "Jade, did you bring these people here?"
 
Moro speaks up. "Jade is coming with me to Charlton. I don't want to know about the issues you have. The offer to come with us to Charlton is extended to you as well."
 
"Charlton?" Denver answers. "I've heard of that place. You even let cursed Haibane in. I think I can speak for all of us," Denver is referring to herself and the other older children, "we're not going but you can take Jade with you."
 
"I happen to know it is impossible for a person to be both an Immortal and a Haibane." Moro is stretching that a bit. She has never heard of anyone being both. "You're probably as young as you look. Therefore you can't be the housemother. Therefore you can't speak for everyone.
 
"If you don't want to come with us to Charlton, the town council says you can join the youth corps where you will be fed, taught, trained and taken care of. I don't know you to speculate how you'd feel about that but it sounds much better than living in a train station which you would not be able to stay in anyhow."
 
"Why are we not able to stay here?" Denver came in after it was explained. "Do the humans need this train station?"
 
"Yes, they do. A train is coming through and this place will be back to being a train station."
 
"Lieutenant Benson," the housemother asks, "you said the town council can give us a place to live that can support me and these children?"
 
"That's correct." Lieutenant Benson answers.
 
"Though these children are not my own?"
 
Jeanette Isabelle

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Now that is a good question.
 

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“That depends on where these children came from.” Lieutenant Benson answers. She adds, “Let me speak to you in private. Moro, remain here with the children for a moment, please.”
 
Lieutenant Benson the leads to a spot away from their listening range from the children to speak to the housemother.
 
“Like I said, it depends on where these children came from. If it is found out that these children ran away or were kidnapped, then somebody is going to be in big trouble.” Lieutenant Benson hints at pointing to the Housemother. She continues with the flip side however, “But if these children happened to be survivors of a purge, then no one is in trouble but they might still have a family to return to. We will check with missing people records before they go with you. I’m not seeking to charge anyone with a crime here, my mission is to find out what is going on and get details and an answer to a choice given to you. If you decide to leave, you will be provided with a vehicle large enough to house everyone with food and supplies to last the trip and you would be leaving with several others, you would not be doing this alone. Moro is part of that group.”
 
The Housemother stands there with her arms crossed, holding back the anger of being kicked out of the only place she knew as home. But at least she is listening.
 
“I’m going to let you in a rumor I heard. The President of the Town Council Dean Jenkins is missing and his daughter is leaving with the group, she has not taken his seat of command. His other sons and daughters are missing as well. It is said that they were purged and their property destroyed. They maybe dead or alive, we do not know.” Lieutenant Benson explains.
 
“Ain’t that convenient.” The Housemother lets out. “Without a Town Council President, General Jastrey is in charge.”
 
“The Jenkins were not the only ones who were purged. Several farming families were hit as well. It is this that led to the final battle with the Slavers and we defeated them. The McDonalds were hit as well and a few other farming families have not been heard from either. Though the town is celebrating winning the war against the slavers, it comes with a very heavy price of entire families that were purged. Except for trading, I do not know how we are going to survive the winter with no crops as they were all burned down by the slavers. If you stay, and I’m not swaying what your decision should be, it is going to be a very hard winter, even with the Town Council’s help. If you leave, you leave with food and supplies to last you the trip and I hear the group is generous in food and money if and only if you put in a day’s worth of work. You like to take care of children, they got children to take care of, that could be your job. And these children who go with you, if they leave with you tonight will not have to go through the missing people search. They leave with you no questions asked.” Lieutenant Benson explains, adding, “I need a decision from you – the adult of the group, not some winged brat who disrespects authority. If it were my child, wings or not, I would have smacked her across the mouth for disrespecting adults. I need to tell General Jastrey what you want to do.”
 

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Note II: The McDonalds are the last name of Ruth, her sisters and her boy cousins. Took me a long time searching through the forum to find it. It is here: http://www.hondosackett.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1428938728/1012#1012

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I'm glad to know how I'm portraying Denver is crystal clear.
 
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"With one exception, all of the children are victims of the purge." The housemother begins. "I don't know if they have family somewhere else."
 
"With one exception?" Lieutenant Benson inquires. "Would you care to elaborate?"
 
"Jade is a mystery. She was found unconscious on the floor of an empty room with blood on her."
 
Lieutenant Benson is wondering why this was not reported. "Who found her?"
 
"Aurora, one of the older children. She's not here at the moment. Aurora reported this to Kim, the only other adult here until her disappearance.
 
"Our best guess is . . . Jade is eleven or twelve."
 
"You don't know?" Benson asks.
 
The housemother shakes her head. "Though Jade is at the age to remember things, she does not remember much except for things such as her first name, the fact she has two parents and they are both human and a description of the city or town she was living in. She is educated as evident in that she can read, write and at least count.
 
"I don't know what you know about Haibane. When the wings break the skin, there is blood. The wings need to be cleaned. This wasn't done for Jade so, when she was found unconscious, there was blood on her wings, hair and night gown." The housemother has no interest in Maribelle taking the seat of power or not. "Why no missing person's search if we leave tonight but there will be if we stay in town?" This last part sounds suspicious.
 
Jeanette Isabelle

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When did the purges take place?
 
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"Except for Jade, who mysteriously showed up in December, all the children have been here at least since I have, October." Given that this town will face a hard winter, the housemother is considering leaving with the party. "The younger children are too young to make a decision so I will decide for them. Unless any of them have family somewhere else, the younger children and I will go to Charlton. The older children are old enough to decide to leave for Charlton or remain in this town."
 
Jeanette Isabelle