HE LEFT ME FOR MY STEPSISTER, I MOVED ON TO THE NEXT
I whisper, “I’ve been watching. Every night, after dinner, they drink. A lot. They eat like pigs, then drink until they can’t stand. If we wait an hour, most of them fall asleep. I’ve seen it.”
Clara lets out a hollow sound, a tired, humorless chuckle. “You think being drunk means they can’t kill us? They’d shoot blind and still hit one of us.”
“I know,” I admit, my voice low. “But if we wait for them to decide we’re no longer useful, we’ll die anyway. At least this way, we’ll die trying.”
That seems to quiet them. For a while, there’s only the faint sound of breathing and the occasional drip of water from the ceiling. Then Clara whispers, “If there was… a plan, how would it work?”