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• Silas had just left the room after he’d delivered another afternoon of torture and pain with demands we didn’t concede to, but he left early, and I was grateful because Kai looked like he was hanging on by a thread.
• He was bleeding, hanging, his hair falling over his closed eyes. He had passed out earlier than yesterday, and I knew it was because we were getting weaker. We barely slept, barely got fed.
• Sometimes they cut us for blood, drank it to taunt us. The guards were just as twisted as Silas, but Kai had said that was the hive mind at work. Silas’s feelings and will would pollute the hive mind until another took over and refreshed it.