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I put a hand out and feel excited The water is very war I haven’t had in a long ti it on a fire

She watchesfrom my hand to hers She puts a hand out and smiles at me It’s the first ti white It doesn’t suit the rest of her face She steps into the water and lets it rain down on her

"It feels great doesn’t it?"

I glance back at the lady watching us It makes me uncomfortable she is there

"I remember my first shower too"

Her voice is hollow She hasn’t been here since the beginning She works here because she was captured Her dark eyes givelook when she smiles under the space suit

"The soap is a special kind It ash anything off of you that you don’t want there Do your hair too"

I cringe I can’t help but wonder if she was one of the ladies who got to stay behind in the truck for a bit when it arrived at the farm

I pick up the bar of wrapped soap I peel back the plastic The girl watches me and does the same I smell the soap and almost moan It smells like lavender and tea tree Of course it does Natural cleaners for the body Tea Tree beca produced

I lather and scrub At one point I sit on the floor and scrub my toes out I don’t even care how bizarre I look I scrub the wound onnot to cry out in pain

Other women start to filter in They cry with joy as the ater washes them

Space suit points to a hallway, "This way" I ith the girl holding my hand I look back at the shower and miss it already

My nerves are shot I need to find Anna I need to protect the girl beside et us all out without casualties I ht need onewet as I pad along the cold cement floor I shiver She takes us to a stack of towels in plastic She passes them to us I tear the plastic and pull a white terry towel robe from it I pull it on and instantly feel better White terry towel slippers fall onto the ceirl She has the robe and slippers on, but on her they are swis herself

"Can she speak?"

I shake my head, "I don’t know"

"She isn’t yours?"

I shake irl, "We found each other in the dark"

Space suit walks through a weird shower Her space suit is rinsed completely She steps out and points, "Okay this way please" Space suit looks annoyed suddenly We follow her through a huge white door and we are in the white rooone We walk in our plush clothes to a waiting rooo and sit on the white plastic chair that looks forirl sits in the chair next to azines like a real doctors office or s

"I’irl who apparently can talk, "Me too"

Two more ladies come and are seated next to us I’d bet they’re in their late twenties or early thirties if I had to guess

A chubby one s happened since you got here?"

I shake my head

She frowns, "God I hope this doesn’t take all day I’et our own beds and roo lady next to her gri to the women at the back of the truck? We aren’t here for a vacation We’re here to be raped and reproduce"

I scowl "Don’t" My eyes dart to the little girl

Thelady rolls her eyes and crosses her arirl s in his hands He looks like a doctor He is older and has glasses on

He glances up at us and smiles, "You" He points at htened The girl grips me

"She wants to coirl, "It’s your choice She should be with the other healthy children"

I hug her to s and turns and walks down the white hallway

He walks to a room with a bed, just like my doctor back home had There is another chair and a curtain and a s is white I feel like I can’t actually see the depth of things because of all of the white