by Richards, ES
“But what can we do?” FM argued back, standing closely to DM and seeking comfort from his body heat. “We have no leverage.”
“We can refuse,” AC suggested. “We can say we won’t do it?”
“And then what? We get thrown into a mainstream jail and left to rot like the millions of others trapped there. Come on,” KW cracked her knuckles in her hands, her knowledge of how this worked coming together faster than anyone else in her group. “We know the drill. We get it done and then we leave. We don’t have a choice.”
Angry and frustrated murmurs carried around the bunker, AC flinging his hands up and storming out of the server room muttering swear words under his breath. No one else knew what to say. They were trapped without an option. Their government listened to and watched every move they made, holding their lives in their hands as they delivered food and water when required. They had tried to refuse before and all it had resulted in was that source of sustenance being cut off until they gave in. KW herself had suffered from dehydration and extreme hallucinations during that time, she knew more than most that it wasn’t worth trying again.
They were pawns in their government’s mission, trapped underground like lab rats living only to serve a purpose. Each of them may have been promised freedom, but when that freedom was based on nothing more than a man’s word, she had always worried it was a freedom that would never be granted. Clearly their country wasn’t finished yet and the five of them were going to see this through until the very end.
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