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Prologue

Levi

Four o on Earth …

If I believed in an Als on Earth, I would send up a silent prayer and ask Hihty, though In fact, I didn’t believe any higher being looked out for humans at all In the world I lived in, you could only rely on yourself … and I couldn’t even do that because of him

Master

I tensed in revulsion at the thought of the round and stared up at the sed to be able to see the many stars that I kneinkled beyond the thick mass of black pollution that made its home above the endless wastelands that stretched across hts had not been visible to the naked eye since long before I walked the Earth

Not for the first tis would have been like if I was born into another life, to a different species on a faraway planet A life that was not bound by slavery, pain, and terror I pinchedhope was futile For a person likepoison

It would kill me, and the death would be slow and most painful

As fickle as hope was, I couldn’t help but yearn for death because my future was set to be full of immense torture and pain I was a slave up for sale on Earth’s Hu Market, and Master often flaunted that he’d ensure a cruel person bought me just so I’d never know a moment of happiness

I believed him

Master hated me, but he did treat me differently from his other slaves He allowed reatly increased if I rein or “unspoiled” as he liked to call it He’dfrom his loins kept me pure The man who abused ical father, but he had never shown an ounce of paternal affection for me in my twenty-one years I was his property, and that was all I never cared that he never acknowledged hter I didn’t believe in a greater good, but I did believe in evil Master harboured all that was evil and didn’t hesitate to express it in vile ways multiple times each day