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I always think of it like that—like the corpses are helping me as much as I’m helping them. We both want to stay alive, or however close we can get to it.
She must read my befuddled expression, because she goes on. “It’s a shame we’ve started believing that credits are worth more than a life.”
Despite how much more difficult it makes everything, some metamorphosis has happened inside me, invisible at a mere glance. I can hardly even explain it to myself. All I know is that I’ve seen the way the light reflects in her hazel eyes and illuminates the freckles on her cheeks, and I’ve felt the warmth of her touch, the way her flesh gives way under my hands.
Because even a wolf can be gentle if it wants, but you should never forget its teeth.
Half asleep, half awake, I find myself thinking about what it would be like to do this every day. Going out to hunt, coming home to a blazing fire and Inesa’s earnest smile.
All I see is Inesa. She grows like ivy on the insides of my eyelids. The roots of her are in my rib cage, winding up around my heart. I can’t help imagining what her bare skin would feel like under my hands.
“You don’t have very much faith in people.” “No.” She looks down at her gloved hands. “If humans were collectively capable of compassion, we never would have gotten here in the first place.”
There’s something about a man—because Luka looks like a man, even if he’s only sixteen—beating a girl that’s especially exciting to them. Something about watching her degradation.
Caerus wasn’t always invincible. I have to remind myself of that, too. Their domination happened slowly. Debts. It all began with debts.
Looking back, anyone could’ve predicted what happened next. The erosion of lines between corporation and government. People clamoring for Caerus’s CEO to replace the governor. An election with questionable democratic integrity. Schools that used to be state-run dissolved and replaced with a new standard curriculum created by Caerus.
author clearly has something to say about our current political climate
The only reason the Gauntlets continue is that the viewers can separate themselves from the Lambs, can imagine it would never happen to them. But the truth is, it can happen to anyone.
