Chapter 21
All food must be consumed inside the cafeteria Anyone who takes food out of this room Will be sentenced to life in the barracks
The signs posted outside and throughout the cafeteria held a more ominous meaning on this particular evening. Taking food had always been a crime, but it had never stopped her before, and she wasn’t about to let a few posters stop her now. She stood in line, watched food pile onto her tray as it passed from one server to the next, then carried it to an unoccupied table. Watching the others fascinated her, but she didn’t intend to become friends with any of them. Making friends would only lead to two possible outcomes: they would either discover the truth and report her or be incriminated themselves.
Everyone around her was caught up in conversations.
