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 sorry to keep you lot on pins and needles.

We ended up saving six of them all told. three of the adults, all three children. We lost one. Fawcett.
 

They were trying their damnedest not to be found, and there was only the two of us looking for them because Kingsley couldn't get away without raising suspicion. ran into Bill around noon, and we combed every square inch of that bloody forest trying to get to them before anyone else.
 

It happened so fast it's hard to keep track of all that happened. We stumbled across them in a clearing. The younger bloke, Turner, about took my head off, but we said we worked with Grim Truth and that was enough to calm everyone down. we told them they were going somewhere safe. I got two of them out with a Portkey, tossed the bag with the other two Portkeys in it to Bill. That's when two of the guards found us. the bastards came crashing through the brush just as Bill handed a Portkey to one of the women –Laura McGivern, I think. From what Bill's told me, one of the guards saw he had the Portkeys and ripped the bag with the last one in it out of his hands. Bill blasted the bag, though, so no worries about security breaches. I hope that wanker got burned for his trouble.

The other guard, well, he went right for me as soon as he saw I had a wand. the woman, Fawcett, she was carrying a young one couldn't be older than two. she shoved him into my arms and leaped right at that guard. I've never seen anything like it. All the while she was shouting at us to go, to get out of there. Bill grabbed two more for a side-along, and I took the baby with me. last I saw, Fawcett was fighting like mad.

Bill was awfully torn up, and wanted to go back for her, but it was too risky. Would have been suicide, especially after those sons of bitches had enough time to call for reinforcements. I nearly had to cold cock him out to keep him here. He's calmed down a good deal since then, but he's still down about Fawcett. He's a good lad, Arthur and Molly, and he used quick thinking to take care of that Portkey. Don't know what I would have done out there without him.

Alice is getting everyone settled. looks like everyone's going to stay here at least for a couple of days before figuring out what they want to do. They're welcome to stay as long as they like, we'll see what they decide.