Fool Me Once
“They are trying to trick you Jocelyn, how many times will you fall for it before you finally realize we are all that can protect you.”
Jo sat outside the infirmary, waiting patiently for her “meal”. Having finally gotten used to the tube sticking out of her belly that she used to take in nutrition, she need only wait for Marlis to dispense the paste that she took in to sustain her. Her stomach rumbled once more, and she found her mood was not improving because of it. Her thoughts lingered on what Felicity had told her, that she was going to receive a new face.
“They are trying to trick me, but I won’t fall for it. Not this time, my hopes have been dashed too many times for me to so easily give them the chance to crush them yet again. They have another thing coming if they think to so easily trick me again.”
Jo felt along her hands, lightly rubbing them together. She could easily feel the new calluses, the product of training with the staff she now carried. She was relentless in her training, knowing she needed a way to defend herself. Although far from proficient, she managed to kill some form of varmint the other day. Sitting perfectly still she could hear it’s approach, felt she could almost see with her ears. Like a flash that staff shot out and she heard the whimper of its death gasp, a soft squeak before it fell silent.
“One day, one day soon I will become what you need me to master, one day they will regret taking what was me and destroying it.
