The children knew that Allie was telling them the truth and was risking her own life helping them so all they could do was pray for them and Allie told them if another child or young adult would find them not to pray and give themselves away, to make it looked as though they were either orphaned and had nowhere else to go or they didn't like their parents bossing them and ran away. The children said okay.
The government had put out the list of people who they thought to be enemy combatants and it seemed everyday more people was put on the list and some of them were elderly who hadn't done anything but to speak out about the government taking away their livelyhood by taking away their only source of income their social security payments and eficting them from their homes.Allie saw more and more of them living in alley ways and she would pull up and take a couple at a time to the cave to help the children. When there wasn't any fruit in the boxes at the store she would take a few of her mother's canned fruit to the cave. So far her parents didn't know Every day more and more of the elderly and their things was disappearing from the crowded alley ways and Allie had told the children not to pray at all or even talk about God but she and they knew this is what God wanted them to do is to take care of the elderly and that was their unspoken mission and reminded them that Matthew 6:3 meant that very thing