Chapter 369: Human Nerves

This can be your new life, she said silently. Have the courage to go for it.

He picked up a pale blue, glittering garment from the bed and it looked delicate in his large hands with those claw-like fingers. "You will put on the dress and shoes and make your hair stay on top of your head." He stared intently at her scalp and she had to check the impulse to touch her head to see if something was wrong. He walked back to the door. "I'll come for you in an Earth hour."

Earth. Longing so intense, her heart ached, rushed through her. She wanted to go home. Wanted to be with her friends. "I can't do it," she told him and carefully stepped out of reach of those huge fists. Agreement or not, she wanted to go home. To Julia and Natalie who had never given up on her. She held out her hands. "Please let me go home." She wanted to be back in the guesthouse and make clothes for her friends.