CHAPTER 10
Well, when I woke up the next morning, I figured everything’d be all right. I’d go to school, and usually around lunchtime the teacher’d let us take a break to go look for bark or roots or bugs or a rat if we were really lucky, and then we’d finish class in the afternoon. So that would at least get me a little bit of food, and maybe someone would remember how I’d always share snacks and then they’d do the same for me. I figured I could go on like that, having school in the day and then spending the nights with the Dear Leader on account of him making me feel all cozy, sorta like I had when me and my sister shared a bed in the old days, except even better ’cause I never had to worry about him kicking me if my feet were too cold or stuff and nonsense like that.
Well, it sounded
