Chapter Nine
After making her choice, Delila was taken to a windowless room deep in the interior of the factory. Strange how the garish lights and clattering sounds of machinery all ceased, swallowed up by the quiet of the empty place where she waited. She remained there in the silence, having no idea how much time elapsed. She sat on the floor, a gray tile that was smooth and cool to touch, but hard to sit on. When she grew too tired to keep her eyes cast on the vacant room, she fell asleep, slumping against the wall to rest her head.
Delila: I was dreaming, falling into a distant land, somewhere in the outer reaches of the known world, where I could have everything I wanted. Far far away from New Victoria. It was an island somewhere with green so lush that the tongue could taste the e
