"Being ready means we're ready for anything they might throw at us. We organize watches of our own so that they can't take anyone away in the night for interrogation or any other reason." They were already isolated from the rest of the camp. Their hosts had made sure to other them from the population at large very pointedly.

She picks at a knot in her hair, snarled during their long hike to the camp. "If they attack us outright then we have the people with combat experience cover the civilians until we can disarm one of them and retreat."

Congrats Byerly, it's a soldier.