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?”

vegetables in the pan, one of them called out in

“Go easy

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

joined in

deeper. A few servers of the Imperial Hotel

they waiters? What

to use the instruments. Very

their thesis relates to geology. Usually, they would fool around in the Imperial Hotel and head to work

and gazed at her in disbelief. “Your

in geology,” Ashlyn replied, still in the same

a heated debate with several of the architects on the issue of post-disaster

is to build buildings with steel frames. In the meantime, we’ll put up some temporary shelters

a solemn expression. “Indeed. Winston is right. We must first build such structures before

we all work together,” another young man

guard became an

isn’t it? Let’s go. I’m sleepy. I want to take a nap.”

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