Kimberly Queen

Code-Breaker

Code-Breaker “What did you bring for me this time?” Aliya asked her little friend, a monkey she had named Kabu. Through the chain link fence, Kabu handed her a nice ballpoint pen. The insignia on the pen looked familiar. She recognized it as that of the resistance militia that was fighting for the freedom of her country. She had seen the militia in her village the year before. They had tried to fight off the soldiers that invaded. When they lost, everyone in her village was captured and brought to this labor camp. Aliya gave Kabu a banana and told him she needed to go. He watched her as she headed off to pick up sticks. Knowing she could be severely punished for having this pen, she buried it and marked the spot with a rock.