Chapter 156

Lilia has been sitting in the same room for hours and watching the sky grow darker outside. Once around midday, Chiara had come in to give her some food and water. Since then, she has seen no one and nothing other than the inside of the small room and the little chink of the sky visible from the tiny window. Many a time she has thought of trying to find a way to escape through the door, but Chiara’s words have come back to haunt her, and every time she has stopped.

“We are in the middle of the Jungle...”

“Five hundred kilometers from your home...”

What will she ever do? Will the others be able to find her, or will she have to spend the rest of her life locked up, trying to make the Junta believe that she and her friends are innocent?

Once it's completely dark outside, the door to the room opens, and Chiara enters for the third time.

“Come with me,” she says.

“Where?” Lilia asks.

Chiara does not say anything, and eventually, Lilia gets up and walks outside with her. She had imagined th