ELODIE’S POV
Morning in the Omega wing began before the sun; I learned that quickly. It was like nothing I had ever experienced and nothing I had ever imagined. In here, it didn’t matter what my parents were out there of if they existed at all. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t an orphan. The only thing that mattered was what Dante said about us…the only thing that mattered was how he felt about us. It only mattered who he said we were, and only he could decide how important we were.
A bell rang somewhere down the corridor while the sky outside my small window was still dark. The sound echoed through the narrow halls, followed by doors opening and footsteps moving quickly across the stone floor.
No one lingered. No one complained. Everyone simply moved. This was a life that they had been
