I grab my sister’s hand and pull her towards the cliff edge with me. She nods slowly in my direction. Then we jump. The sensation of free falling might have been thrilling if i hadn’t been so terrified. It was still only a short fall into soft mud, so it didn’t do much damage. To me at least. As soon as we fell i heard my sister scream in pain, and she started to cradle her arm. But that was it. It was over. No one would follow us over, because no one knew what we knew. That the cliif edge was an illusion, set up to let us escape. That the fall was only about four feet off the ground. Right now they were seeing our bodies on the cliff face and wondering if we were crazy. But we weren’t. Not all the way at least.

I got up quickly and tried to force her to do the same. We should hurry before they sent someone to collect our bodies and discovered we were alive. We probably still had a few hours before they sent anyone, but i wanted to put as much space between us and them as possible. My sister was still kneeling on the ground cradling her arm, but it only took her another minute to get up. After that we walked quickly and in silence back to the base. I had no idea what to tell them. We had almost gotten caught and lost what we came here for in the first place, they would definitely be mad once they saw our memories. But we had no choice. We had to get them the atlas, it was the only one left. If it was destroyed then they would be the only ones with a map of the world, and the resistance would win. We couldn’t have that.