Jack

Wait, I'm the next shipment?!? I was starting to fear it, knowing that Carol needs me more than anyone in the House. 

As I gathered our siblings who were aware of my emotions, I tried to remain calm as I possibly can , mostly because that of that I couldn't allow Mama Ollie to know of our intentions of escaping from Gracefield House. 

"I still couldn't believe that we're actually escaping tonight! I mean this is absolutely insane idea!" I thought in my mind. 

But I have to admit that that in reality, that we don't have much of a choice, mostly of knowing that there would be Demons waiting for us to seek our deaths. 

I smelled something , something like a rotten old meal , that stinks , but in true amazement, it was an smell of fire! 

Isle smiles at me, reassuring that this was part of Carol's plan of us to making it to the underground tunnel that Phil had made for us. 

"Isle, is this really happening?" I asked the teen as she runs towards the younger siblings , "We can do this, it's like we play tag. Let's go!" 

The siblings cheered in totally delight, as if they were expecting it, but unaware that this isn't a game of tag. It's a real game of playing chess, and we have to escape before Mama Ollie reacts and sent the Demon reinforcements after us. 

As I was in total amazement of how Carol managed to fool Mama Ollie, I see her with holding an bandage on the place where her left ear was supposed to be. 

She pants in sweat, as if she must've ran to find us, as I was concerned about her well-being, I asked, "Are you ok?" 

She took a deep breath, before answering my question, as she finally replies back to me, "Y-Yeah, I'm fine. 

C'mon, let's go the escape route now." 

Emma

Ray and I managed to climb the Wall, and to my greatest surprise that Gracefield House was rebuilt , but I also see a spark of fire. 

"Ray, do you see that?" I ask the teen as he also seen it as I do. 

"Yeah, that does seem totally suspicious if you ask me. Let's investigate of what is the situation here and hopefully that we can find our siblings before the Demons realize that we're back from the Outside World." Ray said. 

I concur on his judgment , considering that we had been betrayed before, and I learnt my lesson of making sure of whom we can trust. 

We used the rope that we had from the Bunker, as we slowly make an silent gesture as quietly as possible so that the Demons wouldn't hear us. 

We looked at the familiar landscape. It truly amazes me that it hasn't changed over the last two years since we escaped . 

Ray seems to amazed as well, as if all the memories he had , came to haunt him.  I had forgotten that he has infantile amnesia, and he had known about the Secret of the House longer than Norman and I. 

I touched his shoulder, "Ray, it's going to fine. We can absolutely do this. Remember why we came here . " 

Ray seems to be in total ease from my words, knowing that I would be always be there when he needs it. 

We looked around , searching for clues to find the whereabouts of the missing siblings that we left behind, to our amazement, we hear footsteps coming towards us. 

We hid, in case if it was the Demons, but it wasn't. There were voices we never hear before. 

"Jack, Isle, is all the children here?" 

Isle nodded, "Yeah, and I brought all the supplies you asked me for. " 

I seen the rope. Could it be them, the siblings? But how could it be them? 

I also seen that one of the siblings have an missing left ear! I couldn't bear it any longer to find out if it was really my siblings. 

"Emma!" Ray whispered as I ran out of my hiding spot, as the teens looked directly as they were going to escape.   

Carol

I have to admit, doing the escape was really hard work. Although, it did work out . I cut off my left ear, and place it in bucket where Mama Ollie would use her tracking device , the pocket watch. 

After that , I put some shoes and backpack and ran to find Jack and Isle. As I did, Jack was worried as I suspected he would be. 

Isle gave me the rope and I was about make a loop towards the tree to get the underground tunnel,  a teen, about 14, and has orange long hair, with a short braid, wearing a white bandage covering her left ear was staring at us. 

She was also wearing a black shirt, pants, long-covered white coat and an necklace. 

She also equipped with a bow and arrow. 

Jack asks, "Who is she?" 

I haven't the slightest idea, but then I looked deep into her eyes. That was when I remembered her face , when I was an infant. The caring smile, and concern on her face. 

No... it can't be her, can't it?

I walked towards her with curious , yet concerned voice, making sure that it was truly the person I thought she was. 

"Emma? Is that you?" I asked. 

"How do know my name?" Emma asks me, as I begin to form a small smile on my face, as if I been dreaming of this moment ever since I was five years old. 

"Oh, Emma. You really don't recognize me, huh? I guess it has been a long time, hasn't it?  I'm 32501, that's the bar code I was given , but Emma, you know me. The last time you saw me, I was an infant. 

Take a long look at me ." 

It took Emma a long time to connect the dots. But then, her hands were covering her mouth in pure shock and disbelief. 

Finally, she said, "C-Carol?" 

Jack and Isle came to my side, as I reassure them, "Guys, it's Emma! It's our big sister. " 

Emma turns around her back to where she was hiding from, as she said to the person hiding, "Ray, com'on out. It's Carol!" 

Wait, Ray's with her?!?

The boy came out too, an 13 year old boy, wearing a black shirt with a long-white coat. 

I couldn't control my anger of how much I had suffered during living in the farm, knowing the Secret , as I punched Ray across the floor , as Jack, Emma, and Isle were shock of my actions. 

"What the hell, Carol?!?" Isle said. 

Ray seems to be laughing at the situation, as if he knew I would react this way. 

"I guess that you're that irate , huh? We're so sorry that we didn't come sooner." He said, as he got up to his feet. 

Emma quickly embraces me into her arms, felt totally relief that I was all right. 

"Emma?" I asked the teen with a curious tone of why she was hugging me so suddenly.  

"I'm so happy that you're alive, Carol, you've grown up since I last saw you. " She said. 

I embraced her hug , as finally reuniting with her for the first time, as Emma finally pulls away from me with a question of her own. 

"Wait, how you possibly know the truth about all of this? About the Demons, the farm, and being Cattle Children?" 

I pulled out the letter to show to her and Ray. 

"Phil told me about the Secret of the Gracefield House when I was five. He gave me this letter before he disappeared with a man named Andrew. 

I kept it as a secret from Jack and Isle , my best friends, and watching my siblings been shipped off one by one by Mama Ollie, I couldn't do anything to protect them from their fate. I felt horrible and felt responsible for not taking action sooner. " I explained . 

Ray said, reassuring me, "Carol, it's not your fault . I know how terrible it is of knowing the truth and not doing anything. But aside of that fact, I felt that torture too , believe me . But I moved on, thanks to Emma . " 

"Wait, so, why did you come? You came to find us?" Jack asks. Emma nods , confirming his guess. 

"Emma really wants to find all of you, but I never thought we will reunite like this. " Ray blushed with total embarrassment. 

Emma said, "We'll have to get out of here. " 

"Yeah, I totally agree. " 

I tied the rope that Isle brought and threw it down towards the underground tunnel. 

"Jay, you take Jenny and the younglings first. Emma, you have to stay and be on the lookout in case of the Demons show up. 

Ray, you helped me get them down using the rope we got from the house." 

Ray

I couldn't believe that this is baby Carol, the infant that replaced little Conny. She looks exactly like Emma. 

Her determination to make sure all her siblings are accounted for, and she managed to cut off her tracking device too. 

As everyone made it down, we ran as fast we could, but then , the alarms blare off in the distance as Emma climbs down with all her strength. 

"That could be trouble." Isle said as Emma rejoins us and looks at Carol with pure caution state. 

"Carol, what we do from here? The Demons will arrive any second now. " Emma stated , looking at the siblings. 

Although it made me felt was guilt. Guilt that she has to experience the horrifying and traumatizing pain of loosing everything, loosing the people that closest to her, to be sacrificed in order to make her plan to be an success. 

I am really felt responsible for the pain she had , waiting until she was old enough to get out of the home she adored. 

Carol pointed across the other side of the large gap between the tunnels. "We'll cross here, it's going to be a gamble of using the same technique that you used the first time, but it's the only thing that I believe it's the logical choice. 

Jack and Isle trained our siblings while Mama Ollie thought it was play for at least for a whole day. " 

"Oh, that explains the hangers." Isle said, understanding her method idea. 

"You are really good of planning though. It's exactly how Norman would do, but it least that is the case." 

"Norman?" Carol asks with a curious face. I realize that she never knew Norman like Emma and the rest of us. 

"Oh, that's right. You haven't met Norman when you were little. Norman is our sibling who was sent to a different farm. An experiment farm called ^7214, and he has an alias named "William Minerva." 

He'll be expecting a major surprise once we arrive back at Cuvitidala Paradise. " 

Carol was amazed of the description of Norman. "Whoa. It sounds like Phil didn't mention about him. I guess it was harder on him mostly because he thought he was shipped to die." 

"It wasn't easy for any of us, I tell you that much. The three of us were the ones who knew the truth all together. Then we recruited the rest of the 15 siblings to come along with us. 

Once we arrived to Cuvitidala Paradise, Emma will escort you to meet Norman since he is the leader of the resistance. 

For any advice I can give you, Carol is this: Just be yourself around him, ok? We'll get used to know each other." 

We zipline across to the Outside World, the World that Carol never thought it was impossible to see. 

Carol smiled as she wiped a tear in her eye, as if it was some sort of miracle that her plan was worth it after all. 

But I felt some sort of worry about if I get the final chance to see my mother. 

"Mama. " I muttered sadly as I continue running. 

We made a campsite for the night as I grabbed the ambrosia from my backpack and begin to change the bandage of Carol's left ear. 

She said as I was changing it, "Ray, you really don't have to do this for me. I can manage to do it myself since I'm eleven years old now." 

"Carol, please let me. I'm your older brother. You're my responsibility aside of Emma. You and her are so much alike."  

"Really, how?" Carol asks , looking at Emma who was talking to her younger siblings. 

"Well, you both sacrifice so much for this family. That I can see in both of you. But there is also caring, bravely , selfless attitude for anyone in trouble. 

The difference is that Emma is more skilled as an archer and more like a leader too. " 

When we arrived to Cuvitidala Paradise, Gilda and Don race towards us and pushed Emma and me to the ground! 

"Guys! Com'on!" I said, as Carol laughs with total delight . 

Emma touches her shoulder, "Don, Gilda, you may not recognize her , but it's Carol." 

"No way, it's not really Carol, because she's an infant when we escaped." Don said, as Carol pouts , "Geez, Don, that is not way to welcome your younger sister, that's cold. 

Besides, I'm not an infant anymore, I happen to be eleven years old, thank you very much." 

Emma laughs, "Ok, I think it's time for Carol , Isle and Jack to meet Norman. He is very curious about how the escape went down by now. " 

As they went to Norman's office, I begin to wonder if how Norman will cope of meeting Carol again, but not as a baby but an eleven year old girl.