“ They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce. ”
With each step, one of them pulled off an earring or a hair extension or a bow and let it fall to the ground, so that by the time they reached the door they had left a trail of glittering accessories behind them. It looked like a grand parade had passed by, and no one had yet come to sweep up the confetti.
~ Damian Wampler
The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.
Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.
Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.