Chapter 138

By the third day, I didn’t bother to hide it. I couldn’t have if I tried. My fake masters dropped me at the keepers and I lay down on the ground just inside the compound wall. Tears leaked out of my eyes continuously and I stared ahead not seeing anything.

Rose talked to me and Fuji begged me to get up and move around, but I couldn’t understand them. I lay defeated all day long wherever the keepers put me. The lunch bell rang and I didn’t move. Men came and went in front of me, but my mind was gone.

The desert that had become my thoughts was quiet suddenly. I felt broken and used, but the crushing weight of sadness had lifted.

I looked around and I was at home in the compound. There were no memories of getting here. Last I remembered I had been crying at the keepers on the ground. It made no sense.

I sat up slowly on the bed and heard my fake owners talking to the healers. The healers told them I was past repair. Perhaps it had something to do with the stomac