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I put all of the stuff I had grabbed into my pack, and checked it for anything that wasn’t mine. I closed my pack up, putting my journal away too.

When everyone had grabbed all of their things, we all sat back down to receive further instructions.

“When you are dropped off at your campsite, you won’t have much to do. You can do this whenever you like, but you have to do it sooner or later. You have to get your tarp up, unless you want to sleep without it. You have to do your assignments. And you have to build your mailbox. “

“Your mailbox is something you will build to hold anything you need to give us. If you need more water, put your water bottle in your mailbox. When you are done with your food, put it in your mailbox. If you need something, leave us a note. Got it?”

We all nodded our heads. That was new – I didn’t know that we were going to have to build something! I hoped that my campsite would have things that I could build with. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything I could think of.

“Kayce, Bruce and Bobby, you guys are coming with me. Sarah Margaret, Maggie, Tullia and Ben, you go with Jen. The rest of you, stay here until one of us comes back to get you. From this moment on, we will all be silent. There will be no talking until we see each other tomorrow. Understand?”

We nodded again, and I almost laughed at the looks of panic on my crewmates faces. They couldn’t believe that we weren’t even allowed to say goodbye.

Jen and Katie walked off, with most of my crewmates following them. Luke, Rebecca and I waved at them as they left, and I tried to push down the panic I felt as they walked away.

Luke stood up and bent down to pick something up, and as he did that a look of pain covered his face. I forgot what Katie had just said, because I was worried about him.

“Luke, are you ok?”

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