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 forbidden to dance, sing, or look one another in the eye. They were forbidden 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
