“Ben, come with me...” Hebe turned off the gas and drew me towards the storeroom. I found that Hebe had expanded the hole during my absence. It was now double its original size.
At this rate, we would very likely finish the job this evening. Of course, we wanted the hole to be a little deeper.
“It seems we’ll soon get the job done!” I didn’t know how Hebe had managed it, but I knew that sometimes people could do seemingly impossible things in desperate circumstances.
After hearing my words, Hebe immediately twined her arms around my neck and, eyes blinking, asked, “Ben, can we go home when this is over?”
Hebe wanted to go back to our home country, Dern, and I felt that she was right to want to leave. This was a troubled place for a girl like her. I hoped she would never come back af
