Chapter 294

Their opinion resolved me to make the best of this. I remembered seeing stories on the television about how some humans lived. They subsisted on mountains in worse conditions than I was in now. My weakness embarrassed me, so I focused on the positive.

There was some good in this situation. The family was together and not separated. We were fed and had water to drink. There was no use complaining about the lesson.

The lesson we should be learning was obvious. All of us belonged to Nu-reeh and she could do with us what she wished. She could keep us miserable or comfortable for even the smallest reason. The sooner we did her bidding without questioning, the less we would suffer.

“Strange, though,” Christof still said, “she’s never put this much work into making us feel dependent on her before.”

She’d never asked us to stop making our own decisions before either. In fact, in the past she’d encouraged independence. Something had changed, we just didn’t know what i