led into one another, each

e y

family prided themselves on, was not just

methodical i

grew gaunt, her clothes h

d infraction, or sometimes for no reason

e, cleaning the filthiest parts of the

the worse

oodline." He, and other men he de

into their miserable fold. Or perhaps it was just ano

nd float away while her body endured. It

es continued, be

t to The

is for th

is not

fested in condi

would cower, her eyes darting f

times dropping to her knees in a fawning gesture of submis

ive, that lessened the beatings, that so

d, became a repository of fe

to be Rory Dubois, the woma

a broken creature su

t life anymore. The memories

– they were like figure

ket was a for

he hunger, the pain, and the cru

e name of the place that had becom

ver even entered her mind. There