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they saw the crippled and wounded owner lying in a pile near the door moaning. They knelt down
and waited as their boss yelled at them. “How could you two knuckleheads stuffed this up too! “ he
raged. “You can’t even do a simple job!” The men shrank back and gulped. “Servant, take them to
the dungeons!”
“No sir please! We will try again, this time we won’t fail! Just please don’t send us to the
dungeons!” the first man yelled desperately but the captain just waved his hand and the two were
dismissed. Down in the dungeons you could hear shrieking and screaming of people being tortured.
For what happened in the captain's dungeons was so terrible that no one ever came out of it
alive.
Meanwhile the twins were running and running, not able to stop. They ran on and on until
Audrey fell. “Audrey, come on we have to keep going,” her brother desperately tried to pull her
up.
“We’ve been running for ages and you still haven’t even told me why we are, you just pushed me
out a window and started sprinting away!” she yelled.
Her brother sighed and shook his head. “Look, we are nearly at the forest. How about we rest
there and see what to do in the morning, and I promise that I will tell you everything when we
get there. Okay?”
“Fine,” Audrey stood up and sighing began to run again.
When they reached the wood Audrey stopped again. “What is it!” John yelled.
“This is dad’s forest, the one that he always took us to when we were younger. Don’t you
remember?” the girl asked.
A distant memory flickered like a dying candle at the back of John's mind. “Well we must be close
to home then,” he said, shaking off the embarrassment.
“No, we're not the forest was always a day’s trip away. We’re nowhere near home!” Audrey
flopped to the ground and let the tears she had been holding fall. “And anyway you have to tell
me everything.”
Sighing once more her brother sat down and began, “Well mum didn’t really die because of dad
and that she didn’t eat anything it was something else…”
