Chapter One
The cold of the water sank into my feet, chilling my whole body. My shoulders shook, and goose bumps covered my arms. But I couldn’t bring myself to leave the monsters swimming just below me.
With only the moonlight and the soft glow of the tanks breaking the darkness, the silhouetted animals looked like demons or ghosts. The stingrays that swam in slow circles were the spirits of all the factory rats who’d died in service to the domes, sacrificing their lives so the kep could wait out the apocalypse in paradise.
A sea turtle surfaced near my feet, taking in a breath of perfectly filtered air before sinking back below the water. The animal was massive and beautiful. In the daylight, I could watch the turtles swim for hours, weaving around the stingrays like life trapped in g
