Chapter 15
Ben didn’t know for sure what he had expected from the Hadem, but it wasn’t this. He had grown up in the tyranny of the pale-skinned Workers, who were f*******n to dance, sing, or look one another in the eye. They were f*******n to enter the home of someone who wasn’t family. Next, he had gone to the Worker city with Isika, and they had been captured, imprisoned, and beaten by the pale-skinned Worker priests.
He had assumed that all pale-skinned people were like the Workers. Well, he knew that Brigid, Karah, and Jerutha were different. Of course, Gavi, too. But mostly. As a whole. Today he saw how unfair that was.
They walked into a wonderland slowly, as if in a dream. Of the group, only Ivy and Jabari had visited the Hadem village before. As they walked under the archway tha
