Redemption
Only those of us who took part in the ritual attend the cremation. We don’t want to explain how a dead girl got into the Fort and why. Lily mixes Zofia’s ashes with salt, pours them into an urn and gives it to Ebrach. The sacrifice’s ashes get salted too, but we scatter those into the river at the bottom of the canyon.
Control calls Storm, Breeze and their uncle, Ice back for the committee meeting and interestingly Bear as well. Each of them are a couple days away, meaning we all have time to think things through and get to terms with our feelings. It’s a good thing because I promised Ebrach we can drink ourselves into oblivion and I’m eager to keep that promise. I don’t want to do that in the observed cell for everyone to see, so I request the captive to be transferred to one
