#Chapter 133 Foraging Foray

Mira It’s strange how time warps when you fall into a routine. There were no long individual days in a week that repeated endlessly. Every morning I woke up in that refurbished room. It was just “today.” At some point I was surprised to know that I had seen two full moons since I’d come here. Every other morning I would run the perimeter of the grounds until I was tired, then wash and eat breakfast. Most of the time I ate alone, but sometimes Malachi would join me. Then I would go to the lab and see what work could be done. The research was exciting, I had to give him that. But everyday I still fought with the sickening fact that these were children being treated like lab rats. I had to put myself further into a dissociative state, focus on the science in front of me, in order to get through it. I was given permission to be escorted outside the fence to forage. Jeremiah was sent with me, and I wondered if Malachi trusted him most or just didn’t want me to interact with oth