Love in the Dark
Chapter
The guard led Thomas through the school, to the rooms that had once been the boys' locker room. The space was still lined with metal lockers painted in the school’s colors of red and blue. The municipal water supply didn’t flow, but the Survivors had rigged a water tank into the ceiling which was filled manually by the slaves. The guard secured his hands to a pipe over his head, and then proceeded to strip him down. “Like what you see?” Thomas teased the man as the guard yanked the tattered remains of his pants down to his ankles.
The guard replied by landing a punch in his gut. He twisted a tap and cold water began sluicing over his body. Thomas shivered violently while the guard began scrubbing him with a rough scrub brush, the kind used to clean floors
