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@@@@@Everyone did their part, and since I had no right to be here, I tried to work twice as hard as the othersI could not earn a place, I knew that, but I tried to make my presence as light a burden as possible I got to know a little about the humans around me, mostly just by listening to themI learned their names, at leastThe caramel-skinned woman was named Lily, and she was from PhiladelphiaShe had a dry sense of humor and got along well with everyone because she never got ruffledThe young man with the bristly black hair, Wes, stared at her a lot, but she never seemed to notice thatHe was only nineteen, and he'd escaped from Eureka, MontanaThe sleepy-eyed mother was named Lucina, and her two boys were Isaiah and Freedom?Freedom had been born right here in the caves, delivered by DocI didn't see much of these three; it seemed that the mother kept her children as separate from me as was possible in this limited spaceThe balding, red-cheeked man was Trudy's husband; his name was GeoffreyThey were often with another older man, Heath, who had been Geoffrey's best friend since early childhood; the three had escaped the invasion togetherThe pallid man with the white hair was WalterHe was sick, but Doc didn't know what was wrong with him?there was no way to find out, not without labs and tests, and even if Doc could diagnose the problem, he had no medicine to treat itAs the symptoms progressed, Doc was starting to think it was a form of cancerThis pained me?to watch someone actuallydying from something so easily fixedWalter tired easily but was always cheerfulThe white-blond woman?her eyes contrastingly dark?who'd brought water to the others that first day in the field was HeidiTravis, John, Stanley, Reid, Carol, Violetta, Ruth Ann? I knew all the names, at leastThere were thirty-five humans in the colony, with six of them gone on the raid, Jared includedTwenty-nine humans in the caves now, and one mostly unwelcome alien I also learned more about my neighbors Ian and Kyle shared the cave on my hallway with the two real doors propped over the entrance Ian had begun bunking with Wes in another corridor in protest of my presence here, but he'd moved back after just two nightsThe other nearby caves had also gone vacant for a whi