Picture prompt: a hole in the sky

Today’s writing prompt and my response.

Day four of this week’s challenge! The story starts here.
Picture prompt: a hole in the sky

She settled closer against the wall, and stared into the shadows behind him. ‘You remember back before?’ she said.

‘Yes.’ Although he preferred not to.

‘How they used us, to do all their dirty work?’

‘Yes.’

‘But some of us were cleverer than that, and they knew it.’

He was getting irritated. This was all old history.

‘Yes, yes,’ he snapped. The look in her eyes ...