Chapter 7: Five More Brothers

Ellis didn't flinch.

"Reminders," he said, and pulled his sleeve up to the wrist. "I forget everything lately. Dad's orders and the fence rotas, all of it."

"Very wise," Lester said.

He didn't look at the ink again, and he didn't need to.

He looked at Ellis's coat, where the jar made a square lump against his ribs.

"Take the girl back to the guesthouse, son," he said. "I'll go and tell your father she's secure."

"Sure," Ellis said.

We walked out of the hall without speaking and crossed the yard.

I felt Lester's eyes on my back the whole way.

At the guesthouse door, Ellis leaned down and whispered, "He knows."

"He knows something," I said.

"I'll get the others," he said. "Tonight. Don't sleep."

He locked me in, and I lay on the cot with my shoes on.

At nine, a stone tapped my window.

I opened it, and two heads popped up in the dark, identical grins and identical jackets.

"Is this the secret mission?" the first twin whispered.

"I told you it was," said the second. "Ellis said there's a lady in a tower."

"I'm not a lady, and it's not a tower," I said. "Listen. Last summer you two put a frog in my lunch bag."

They looked at each other.

"We don't know you," one said.

"You waited until I was at the lake," I said. "I opened it in front of the whole pack, and I screamed, and Dad laughed so hard he cried."

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