CONTENT WARNING - Child endangerment and abuse
Rin had never liked being alone.
But then, she was a Lyrin, and the thing that Lyrin valued above absolutely anything else was being together with other Lyrin. She hadn't seen another person, let alone another Lyrin, for days that felt like years.
She deserved it though. Or at least that's what the bad men with the sticks had said as they had beaten her. She deserved to be locked away. She deserved to have no contact with anyone else. That's what happened to little girls who lost their supplies. To little girls who twig the Guard on to their operation.
Rid had apologised, of course. She had apologised for losing the merchandise a lot. She had begged and pleaded for the big men to stop hitting her, but they never ever did.