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anything
more. The old Warden had told me that the database would record that
I joined the Red Lantern two nights ago. But I only came in last
night. What should I say? What does the database really reflect?
Am I about to be busted?
    I wait for the death blow,
staring straight ahead.
    “ Sit, Ana.” The
Warden puts her tablet away and waves me down.
    I collapse onto my seat, sitting
on my hands to stop them from shaking.
    The Warden clasps her hands
behind her back and surveys us. “Eat.”
    The girls all reach out and grab
the bread roll with their hands. With heads bent, they start gnawing
and tearing at the bread with their fingers and teeth. They seem to
be trying to eat as fast as they can, but the bread looks too tough.
    I test the bread with my
fingers, trying to peel a piece off my bread roll but it is as hard
as stone. I knock the bread against my knuckles. It feels like a
rock. This is stale, dry bread, hardly edible but it is the only
thing we are given.
    I watch the girls gulp down
water and try to choke down their bread. I grab the glass and
swallow a mouthful of cold water. Inhaling sharply, I attack the
bread with a vengeance. Clamping my jaws around one corner of the
rock hard bread roll, I twist the roll round and round with my hands
and jerk my head to try to bite a damn piece off. I keep at it,
biting, twisting, chewing, swallowing, forcing the bread down my
throat bit by bit. Eating has never been such hard work but I am not
giving up. I will eat this, finish every stale crumb to stay alive.
I need the strength, but at the moment, it feels as though I am using
up all my strength just to finish the bread.
    I don't look up until I am done.
I drain my glass, washing down the last morsel of tasteless bread
with cold water. Most of the girls have finished eating as well, and
are sitting quietly with their hands on their laps. May seems to be
struggling to finish her bread, but Lilin is whispering to her,
urging her on. I am guessing that there is a penalty for not
finishing what is on your plate.
    The Warden raises a whistle to
her lips and blows. May stuffs the rest of the bread into her mouth
and rises with the rest of us. Her mouth works frantically, as her
eyes water and bulge out of her head. With supreme effort, she
forces down whatever is in her mouth and brings a fist to her lips to
stop herself from retching. Have they been eating this every single
day?
    “ All right. Move to the
Pit now,” the Warden commands as she flings the double doors
wide open.
    The girls step away from the
table and follow the Warden out of the dining room. Behind me, I see
the two women emerge silently from the side door and start clearing
away the plates and glasses.
    The Warden walks to the grand
spiral staircase behind the fountain. We wind our way down the
stairs, descending deeper and deeper down the castle. Finally, the
stairs end and we spill out into a huge, cavernous hall. There are
shielded booths all over the hall, surrounding a round stage. The
stage is shaped like a doughnut, with a hole in the middle.
    The Warden walks to the side of
the stage and presses a button. All the lights come on, with
multicolored spotlights trained on the stage. The circular stage
slowly whirs to life, rotating slowly.
    “ I want to see your
poses,” the Warden calls out.
    The girls immediately shuffle
into a line at the corner of the stage. The first five girls step
up onto the revolving stage and spread out so that they are evenly
spaced around the stage. The Warden blows her whistle and they
immediately remove their tank tops and shorts, letting their clothes
fall to the stage floor beside their bare feet.
    They stand naked with their
hands at their sides and wait. When the Warden blows her whistle
again, they all fall to their knees with their hands cupping their
breasts. They maintain this pose until the stage has made one full
revolution. Then they sit and spread their legs wide, exposing their
cleanly shaved pussy. Some