The guard’s intervention in our lives had made our lives even more difficult. They not only gave us a collar that would detonate on disobedience, but they also snatched the weapons that we had managed to retrieve from the guards.
Weaponless and hopeless, we were once again being controlled by our outer circumstances. Not only that, but it also seemed impossible to establish trust among ourselves. After what Elijah had done, the other participants treated him as an outcast. He was neither invited to join them for breakfast nor did they interact with him.
Elijah’s erratic behaviour could be easily blamed on his growing insanity. Hence, it seemed unjust to see him getting treated like that.
While we sat alone in a well-vegetated corner of the woods, Emanuel claimed, “It was a great idea
