Chapter 45: An ornament

"Yes, sir." Not wasting time to press the button to cut off the conversation, she ran. The doors opened for her. Mostly, Balthazar accompanied her everywhere, but she'd been allowed to go alone to the infirmary every now and then. With the ship monitoring her, she couldn't deviate from the path.

She found Balthazar in his office, watching the same image on the wall. His hands were balled, and his whole body shook. In all her life and the terror she lived through on the streets, she'd never seen anything as fierce as Balthazar's body shaking with rage.