Chapter 202

In the office, No.11 pressed himself against the glass of his chamber, watching Elara from behind. Without a sound, he lifted the cover of his chamber and took a sniff. He blinked. Elara—his keeper—smelled a little… off. She didn't smell quite like herself. No.11 took another sniff, inhaling deeply. Elara and Ashley settled onto the mattress they had laid out on the floor. Awkwardly, they leaned toward the relatively small laptop screen, watching a movie. Elara hesitated. "Why did you choose this movie?" Ashley, completely unfazed, responded, "You're an adult." "There's a child behind us." "He's not that young anymore," Ashley reasoned. Then, quickly added, "And besides, he wouldn't understand it anyway." Feeling both guilty and embarrassed, Elara subtly shifted to block No.11's view. A working woman with a nightly habit of watching something before bed, Ashley sifted through the vast archive on her hard drive and selected an East Arkalian-style movie. She chose it in