6 am It is humid and wet on the compound this morning. Thunderstorms swept through overnight. Yesterday we were joined by an additional family with two very young female captors and a 3rd domesticated canine. Our female assailant has taken the elder of the two new assailants under her wing. She even accompanied the newest hostages and their two tiny captors to the beach-I can only assume it was arranged to ensure the young budding assailants maintain dominance over their hostages. I often hear the eldest of the tiny captors using a primitive form of speech that our female assailant seems to understand. She even communicates back using a notable variance in her pitch and tone, that is not present when she communicates with us.

Our eldest captor, the young man child, has been carelessly absent in his hostage duties as he and his fellow man child comrade partake in adventures all day. They ride loud motorized apparatuses, hunt, fish and I have even witnessed barbaric hand fought battles bringing each other to the ground until one yells “uncle”-a very odd behavior. It makes me fear that this man child comrade is teaching our Male captor new and more advanced methods of detainment. Either way, this training they do has left our female captor to shoulder all of the responsibility of keeping watch of us. I am unsure if this is a planned exercise to test the female captors abilities or if there is strife between them. Is it possible she will eventually slip up leaving room for escape?