THE FIGHT

Summary (Continued)

PART 4

Dana knows she should do something to help revive Rufus, but she chooses to allow him to come to on his own. That will give Isaac and Alice more time to escape. She realizes that he is now about 18 or 19, but she will still be able to bluff and bully him a little. When he awakens, she tells him that he just keeps trying to get himself killed, and she just keeps coming back to keep him from doing it. When she walks away towards the stream to get some cool water, he screams her name, panicked that she might leave him. His need for........

PART 5

Dana now begins to walk towards the plantation house to get help for Rufus. She sticks pieces of the tablet she brought with her on the bushes so she can find her way back, and wonders as she walks, what the years have done to Luke and Sarah and Nigel and Carrie. Furthermore, what has time done to Margaret Weylin? She startles herself as well by thinking the words, Home at last! as she arrives at the house. Even though she knows that only a few days have passed in 1976, she feels comfortable in the thought that time has passed for her, too.

The first person she meets is an unknown white man who demands to know who her owner is. Dana tells him about.......

 

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