She gazed at her hands, which had toiled on the land alongside her parents’. They were coarse and sallow, and the sight of them made her temper flare.

How is Charlotte that fortunate to have been adopted by the Field family?

Her anger and jealousy grew the more she thought about it.

Amidst her resentment, she drifted off to sleep.

At the first light of dawn, the rain, having poured unceasingly for the past couple of days, finally showed signs of stopping. As the downpour slowed to a drizzle, the pattering gave way to a steady, discordant drip.

Some of the early risers in the camp had already begun their morning drills when Ashlyn and Lucas returned.

When they passed the stove, Lucas saw several familiar faces.

Upon closer inspection, he frowned.

“Are those the chefs from the Imperial Hotel?”

hand and masterfully flipping the vegetables in the pan, one of them called out in

“Go easy with the

boisterous laughter. “Don’t worry, Ms. Berry. I’m

others chefs joined

of the Imperial Hotel were engaged in a geological survey with the experts they

they waiters?

to use the instruments. Very adeptly too,

around in the Imperial Hotel and

tracks and gazed at her in disbelief. “Your staff

experts. They merely dabble in geology,” Ashlyn replied, still in the same

forward. Lucas saw several guards of the Imperial Hotel in a heated debate with several of the architects on

buildings with steel frames. In the meantime, we’ll put up some temporary shelters that won’t take

must first build such structures before planning

all work together,” another

“The guard became

of building a house, isn’t it? Let’s go. I’m sleepy. I want to take

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