Darius pushed away the memories he had long repressed and focused on the woman before him. She seemed to have noticed that he had gone into a short daze and waited for him to return to full awareness.
"In the dark, you cannot direct your fate. You can only go where those at the top lead you and hope your skills are good enough to allow to you climb to the top. Otherwise, you will die by the wayside, your corpse being used to harvest organs for sale on the black market or being used to feed the fishes in someone else's shark tank."
Deia said this with haunted eyes, clutching her legs closer in fear. Darius' casual smile faded when he saw this as his heart palpitated.
While he had some knowledge of the dark side of society- in truth everyone in the light had some idea, but pretended not to see it - he didn't think it would be that cruel.
