Chapter Five
Mariola took us back to the accommodation, where we dropped all the debris we had collected during the day and delivered the tired children to the room. Ynggi and Jaki would get them fed and bathed, although, with the amount of junk food they’d eaten, I doubted they would be hungry.
I was a bit jealous of Emi, who collapsed in her cot and looked unlikely to wake until morning. I wanted to go to sleep, too, but we had this meeting still to attend. I’d have to be alert to make sure we didn’t walk into a trap. But I would much rather go to bed.
Out the window, sparkling fireworks rose over the roof of the accommodation block to the left. We decided earlier that we were too tired to stay to watch them.
In the hallway of our apartment, we held a brief meeting, deciding who woul
