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And that made all the difference.
Overcome with exhaustion, I lay back down and curled into a ball. Sleep found me.
“Harper? Harper? Can you hear me?”
The voice was familiar but I couldn’t identify who it belonged to.
My arms flew up as I shot into consciousness and batted at the person hovering over me.
“Harper, it’s okay,” the voice said calmly. “It’s me. It’s Lily.”
Lily?
That couldn’t be right. Lily was never nice to me. Never nice to anyone.
Unless she wanted something from you.
“We’ll be all right,” Lily said to someone standing over us.
A guard backed away, just beyond the invisible wall. It shimmered and suddenly the solid wall was back in place.
I got to my feet and banged against it with my fist.
“Hey!” I yelled. “Let me out of here! Let me out! I shouldn’t be here!”
“Harper,” Lily said, groaning as she pushed herself up onto her feet. “They can’t let you out.”
I was taken aback by how calm she was. How relaxed. How could she be when she was in this situation with me?
Trapped in this same room. Together.
I felt a little lightheaded. I took a step backward and my leg gave way beneath me. Lily was there to catch me and keep me from falling.
“They must have given you a pretty big dose, huh?” she said. “Too much for a woman in a state such as yours. Come on. Let’s get you in the chair. It’s no good you being cooped up on the floor.”
She angled me toward the chair.
I grabbed the arms and kept myself from falling into it. I was damned if I was going to sit in that thing again!
I collapsed to the floor, backed up to the wall, and hugged my knees.
“What’s going on here?” I said.
“Didn’t they explain it to you?” Lily said.
She muttered something under her breath and cast an angry look in the direction of the laboratory outside. She sighed and got down on the floor beside me.
“They’re keeping you here to keep an eye on you and make sure you and the baby are healthy and safe,” she said.
“The baby? So, it wasn’t a dream.”
“No, it wasn’t. There’s nothing so much of a blessing than having children.”
“Not in here. Not when I’m forced to sleep with fighters. Not when our birth control pills are taken from us and we have no choice. And what if… what if it’s a girl?”
That thought more than any other terrified me. It was one thing for me to be forced into a life of servitude in a place like this but to bring a child into it…
“I spoke with the new supervisor earlier,” Lily said. “His name’s Krial. He’s reasonable. He wants to make sure you and the child are fit and healthy. He asked me to come in here and see if there was anything you wanted to share about your health with the scientists.”
