"I am on the ground floor now, Zak. Where did he say the dining room is?" Lillian pursed her lips together and spoke into the phone's speaker. She was standing right outside the elevator doors, waiting for the program to give her a response.
It had barely taken her half an hour to bathe and change into a fresh pair of clothes. She was shocked to see the number of clothes which were shoved into the built-in closet. At the same time, she was glad to see that none of the clothes were too revealing and were decent enough for her to walk around the base in them.
The decision of staying back there wasn't an easy one for her to make. She didn't want to spend her life stuck in an orphanage where she would have to follow the same routine every day while keeping her spirits high. Just like the rest of the lot, she would have spent her days thinking that one day an elderly couple might arrive and adopt her as her own.
