sorry from the moment I set eyes on her," M'Lady
Two said.
"Okay, let's see how sorry she is. Step outside."
my buddy said.
I looked at Robin. She wore an expression of
abject terror and avoided looking back at me. The
other two girls remarkably were as they had been,
their eyes closed, still on their backs. They hadn't
turned or budged to witness any of it.
"Why?" I asked.
"Yours is not to question why," my buddy said. "Yours is but to do and die," the other two
recited.
I walked slowly behind them out of the barn.
The first thing I saw was Teal lying on her side on her
bunk. She must have tried to run off or something
because I saw her feet were shackled to the cat. She
was folded in a fetal position, her eyes closed, but her
body shaking. It wasn't warm anymore. In fact, it was
cold.
I shuddered as well.
"Over here." my buddy ordered, placing me in
the pool of illumination thrown dawn by a pole light. I did as she said.
"Arms at your sides, face forward. Do it!" she
screamed at me, and I did. I felt myself shaking harder
and harder. "Okay, now recite the school prayer. Go
on. Recite it and do it loud enough for them to hear
inside. Do it!"
I started, trying desperately to remember it, but
stumbling over words. Each time I did, one of them
stepped close to me and shouted in my ear. "Wrong!