26
The Dome
Lunch hadn’t gone as planned. Alice had hoped it would be a time that she could sneak out, but instead it had been like the stories Marick had told her of his Marine Corps boot camp. They had to sit there, shoveling food into their mouths, so that they could get back to it. The it in this case meant the inevitable enhancements.
The other recruits had recently arrived via space travel, and were exhausted, but the enhancements would rejuvenate them. Only a couple hours in the pod, and they’d come out refreshed. A new person.
Alice had to bite her tongue when the sergeant had said that. She was the only one of the recruits that truly knew what ‘a new person’ really meant—lost memories, a letter home to their loved ones saying the would-be recruit was deceased, if they had love
