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“I’ll find another way,” I said. “I’ll figure something out.”
“We’re on a desert moon in the middle of nowhere,” Agatha said, heat rising to her cheeks. “You said this would be our chance to get away from here!”
“I was wrong.”
I reached up to run my hand through her hair.
She slapped me away.
“You forced me through the door! You grabbed me!”
“You didn’t have to follow me through!” I spat.
“I thought you were my ticket out of here!”
“That makes two of us!”
“Do you have any idea what they’ll do to me? Back at the prison? They’ll sell me to the lowest bidder and I’ll get sent to a pleasure house.”
She was afraid, scared.
She needed comforting.
But I couldn’t see that through the red mist that descended over my eyes.
I saw only her disappointment in me.
“Come off it,” I growled. “You’ve been working at a pleasure house ever since you arrived here.”
“It’s not the same,” Agatha said defensively.
I knew it wasn’t the same but my own sense of disappointment had dulled my mind.
“Nothing will happen to you,” I said softly. “You’ll tell them I kidnapped you and forced you to come with me. There will be no way for them to prove otherwise. I grabbed you, remember? So what’s to say I didn’t pull you through the doorway too? They’ll put you back in the Prize Pool with the other girls. Things don’t have to be that bad for you.”
“Not so bad? Not so bad? I was abducted and brought here. They forced me to become this… this thing.”
She wrapped herself in her own arms.
She needed comfort and warmth but I couldn’t be the one to give it to her.
Not after I had let her down so badly.
“And you…” Agatha said. “What’ll happen to you if they catch you?”
“They’ll put me in solitary. If I’m lucky.”
Solitary was the very worst place to be.
A single cell with nothing to keep you engaged.
Even if you had the strongest mind, eventually solitary would strip you of it.
Being completely cut off from everyone else had a terrible effect on the mind.
I wouldn’t get to socialize with the other prisoners.
I wouldn’t get to fight in the pits.
