Chapter Fifteen
Symmetry in motion
Jessica watched from her place at the post as Nevada began her hard labor. She could vividly remember her own first work session. Though she wasn’t proud of it, she took some small pleasure in the knowledge of what was in store for the other girl. Her ribs still ached from the savage kicking she had received earlier from her fellow prisoner. She knew what that had been born of, revenge for the wrong she had inflicted on the other girl last night at the cot. But this knowledge did not quell the satisfaction she felt at watching the girl begin to pull the heavy stone wheel.
Their mutual captor left the other girl at the wheel, leisurely returning to where Jessica waited against the post. He reached into his pocket as he approached, and Jessica heard a li
