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“But we did sense you, and we found you there. That’s how we managed to find you.”
    “Your mother said you wouldn’t have brought me here if I hadn’t called you to do it,” Frieda countered. “She says I wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t given my consent.”
    “That is true,” Trin replied. “But you didn’t give it consciously, did you? Some part of you must have asked for a way to avoid going back to the Avitras. You might even argue you fell from the balcony as a deliberate strategy to escape.”
    “What does that have to do with prying into the psyches of the unsuspecting factions?” Frieda asked. “How do you justify that?”
    “We don’t pry into anything,” Trin replied. “We don’t pry into anybody’s thoughts and feelings. We don’t do it to you, and you’re right here in our own country. We are one with the water. We can’t change that. The water brings the same chemical signal to us that it brings to everyone. The same rain falls on us that falls on the other factions. We communicate through those water-borne signals. We couldn’t stop it if we tried.”
    Frieda sighed, and her shoulders slumped. This conversation wasn’t going anywhere. A pair of women stood up and wandered out of the house. Frieda had already grown used to the inevitable reality that people came and went when she wanted them to. The rest of the group drifted away in twos and threes until only Jen, Trin, and Sasha remained.
    Frieda stood up. “I better get home.”
    Sasha nodded. “I’m meeting Fritz here. He’s celebrating Deek’s birthday with his family.”
    Frieda’s heart leapt. Then it crashed into the depths of depression. Deek’s family had already been so kind to bring her to their home. She couldn’t expect to encroach on them again, especially for a personal family celebration. Deek was Fritz’s second, so of course Fritz and Sasha would be invited. But she was a stranger. She’d only met Deek once.
    She moved toward the door and called over her shoulder. “Wish him a happy birthday for me.”

Chapter 4
    Frieda leaned back in the tall grass of the meadow and scanned the surrounding landscape. What a strange country it was! She couldn’t decide if she loved it or wanted to run screaming back to the safety of dry land. Nothing made sense, not even how safe and happy and comfortable the place made her.
    She gazed toward the wall. Only adult people walked back and forth in front of it. Why? No matter where she went, she saw only adults. The children remained hidden. Was she really so stuck in the adult world that children remained invisible to her?
    A rustle in the grass made her turn around, and Deek stood behind her. He smiled down at her. “What are you doing down there?”
    Frieda couldn’t stop herself from smiling back up at him. “I’m just sitting here, relaxing and thinking.”
    He sat down on the grass next to her and leaned back on his arms the way she did. “What were you thinking about?”
    “I was thinking about the children,” she replied. “And then you showed up.”
    He studied her. “And?”
    She didn’t say the words out loud. “I met some of your relatives yesterday.”
    “I heard,” he replied. “Why didn’t you come to the celebration?”
    “Do you mean your birthday celebration?” She snorted. “I wasn’t invited.”
    “You don’t need an invitation,” he told her. “They took you to our home, didn’t they? That makes you family.”
    “Since when?” she asked. “I just met them for the first time.”
    He shook his head and looked away. “You don’t understand how it works here.”
    “You’re right,” she replied. “I don’t, and that’s exactly why I didn’t come to your birthday celebration.”
    “They would never have been able to take you to the house if you weren’t part of the family,” he told her.
    “Why not?” she asked. “What would stop them?”
    “The water,” he replied. “They would have taken you somewhere else, but