She took a deep breath. It would be a long walk to gather saplings and a hard chore to dig the mud by the riverbank.
The corner timbers would be heavy to lift and hard to drag.
“I have to start building,” she told Matt, who still held a bundle of twigs in his scratched, dirty arms.
“Do you want to help? It could be fun if there were two of us. “I can’t pay you, but I’ll tell you some new stories,” she added.
The boy shook his head. “I be whipped iffen I don’t finish the fire twiggies.” He turned away.
After a hesitation, he turned back to Kira and said in a low voice, “I heared them talking.
They don’t want you should stay. They be planning to turn you out, now your mum be dead.
They be set on putting you in the Field for the beasts. They talk about having draggers take you.”
Kira felt her stomach tighten with fear. But she tried to keep her voice calm.
She needed information from Matt and it would make him wary to know she was frightened.
“Who’s ‘they’?” she asked in an annoyed, superior tone. “Them women,” he replied.
“I heared them talking at the well. I be picking up wood chippies from the refuse, and them didn’t even notice me listening.
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