" You can't go. I'm telling you, Mag. Never."

" Do you think you can control me. If I go to go turn right to room number four , then to the next doors, I can go escape on the holes up there. I'm very upset with this war. So the best way is I have to partic.i.p.ate too, better!"

" You can't go whichever way because you will stay, I'm not going with them anymore."

" Do you expect me to be cheerful because you'll not be going? No. If you stay, you will let me feel so guilty and it's conscience - generating, you will put me to blame, scare me with your silence, still! It will upset me. What you're proposing to me is a trap."

" Hmm....no. I...I will just help you, it's sincere. We will wait until when the was is over. I won't work as a soldier anymore, I'll go farming and attend to our family. I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay."

" I never told you to stop working as a soldier. Its just that Amado's rescue for his woman might be hoax."

He smiled and moved closer to her, took her hands and put them around his waist as she laid her head on him, sobbing and eventually cried.

" Shh...calm down. It's alright now, no worries. I'll stay and promise, I will personally attend to you when you give birth. That's a promise. I'm sorry for what you have witnessed. It will never happen to you. I could feel your pains now, its all suffocating, that's why you need to pour it out, think there's a life within you too. So c'mon, let's eat now." He was caressing her hair while intensely crying.

When they we're on the table and started to taste the food, she vomited all she'd eaten. He a.s.sisted her to the comfort room outside.

" It's okay...it's okay..." He whispered.

She cried again and again and the bottom line is, he just put her to bed and Magee slept again.

It was evening when she never woke up and if she did, she'd just urinate.

Someone knocked on the door and it's Albrecht. George told him of the recent revelations of Magee so Albrecht was a bit scared to see her once she wakes up.

" I'm scared. " Albrecht smiled and just put down the bowl of "ginataang puso ng saging."