"Why do you struggle with them? Don't you know we cannot win? I heard you're the longest staying slave in Master Alibaba's ring. He's the nicest slave master I know so far. Any slave that spends over two months in a ring is killed, but Master Ali still keeps you here. Stop being stubborn and just give in. That's the faith of all of us here."
"YOU THERE!!!"
The girl talking to Artemis shrieked, and she quickly crawled away from her. New rules were because of Artemis. No one was supposed to talk to her. The slave master claimed she was rotten and would corrupt the mind of the others. Artemis's few minutes friend was caught talking to her and chances they'd see or talk again was narrow.
Artemis stayed frozen in her gloomy corner. Naked, cold and starved. Her eyes had rings, she now had hollowed cheeks accompanied with a pale skin; pallid and stretched over her stark bones. She'd lost too much weight after she'd been separated from Darren.
