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Prudence heard so She realized from the soreness of her throat that it had been her She opened her eyes but there wasn't much to see except the h, she was glad to see her enormous stomach That at least confirhthtmare; it had been a s on the chao, one of the first tiht of the rest of the dream For so many years she had believed in Reverend Crane She had believed in The Way She had followed his rules so she could soet into Heaven and be happy But he'd never had any intention of her getting to Heaven or being happy He had kept her as a slave, first by locking her up and then by using the fountain water to irl loyal to the reverend From what Samantha had found in the reverend's cabin, he had done this numerous times over the last three centuries Every tian to question the reverend, he turned thehaot out of line, he would turn her into a scatterbrained teenager who pined for his, it had made for a perfect system of control

And she had been so stupid as to fall for the lies again and again As if that weren't bad enough, now she had fallen into this pit She began to understand why a girl like Samantha didn't want to be friends with her anyer and smarter than her, than really anyone else on the island, including Miss Brighah Reverend Crane's lies and eventually she had destroyed him All Prudence had done was to pull Samantha out when the reverend had tried to pull her in too

About all Prudence could do right was sew That wouldn't help her down here, where she didn't have a needle or thread All she had down here was mud and the bones of some other poor child who had ended up here In time she would be just another skeleton in the pit should sos to end this way for her She had always trusted in God, always believed in the Bible She had tried so hard to be a good girl and not repay the cruelty of others in kind Not until last night