Night 57: F11-20 Hallway
Well, that was different. Anise had expected the military's announcement to be brief and to-the-point, but what actually came was a full-on rant. It looked like even Aguilar had a nutty side, too. Both him and Landel kept acting like they were doing everyone a favor with all their twisted plots. Who did they think they were fooling? They were both
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Rose left rather peacefully, despite Lily's anxious looks. It didn't seem that she was being taken to perform the sort of tasks Japan had been assigned the night before, so the most that Lily could do was hope that she'd be safe. She understood that once the door closed behind Rose, she wouldn't see the girl until the following morning.
Please be safe, she thought, briefly closing her eyes.
You are not animals, the intercom said. You act accordingly for your own reasons.
Lies. She bit her lip and rubbed her neck, tried to examine the chain but found that it was too short to bring into her field of vision. It made her angry, that someone would say those things, but she held herself away from her anger the way a person would hold their hand away from an open flame.
If she could have anything, what would she wish? She wanted her friends to be here, to see the snow and the grass and the sky. She wanted to never be afraid of hurting anyone. Lily would do anything for that, but it wasn't what the man was offering. A weapon? Why, so she could attack innocent people when the switch flipped in her brain? Pins, to grant her better food? Institutional food was all she'd ever known, and it served her well enough.
After a long period of consideration, Lily pressed the flower petals between the pages of her journal, stood up, and left the room. She didn't plan to 'try the system to her advantage,' as the General suggested. No. Lily simply planned to see the snow.
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