I surfaced and took a deep breath. It wasn’t Rose’s fault she couldn’t reproduce. I couldn’t blame her for making a choice to stay here. The portals on Earth were notable in their tendency to crush creatures using them. Blaming her for not wanting to die like that was wrong.

For a little while I swam in the water. I felt better than I had in days, more awake. Something really had been eating at me. I’m surprised it took the men this long to ask Rose for help. They must have been trying to rouse me themselves and I hadn’t noticed.

I swam slowly back to shore and realized how crummy I felt. My muscles all hurt and I was just exhausted. My impulse was to curl into a ball on the beach and sleep. Rose would not hear of it.

“I have seen depression many times here,” she told me. “Girls, that give in and give up, die. You must stay active.”

We walked the beach and swam in the shallow water. Rose refused to let me just sit and mull. It was an uphill battle not to complain about how I felt.

The men came to pick me up that night and I was bone tired. I watched Damien’s heels as we stepped through the wall and stopped when he stopped.

feet. Look up.” My confusion was evident as I looked up into his stern

me as Damien

us. We will protect you, but you must trust us and look up. The way you are acting is dishonorable to

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before I could stop it. “The other men,”

before he said it. “We said we will protect you and we will. Do you think

Damien, I don’t think you’re weak,” I sighed

as the men were concerned, we stepped onto our

the bathhouse became a daunting endeavor. Several families stopped to advise Damien I had looked

telling Damien they would take care of my indiscretion themselves. When they took one step toward me, the fight would

putting the other men in their place.

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