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Michael lived alone several miles out of the city. His home a sprawling McMansion hidden behind overgrown hedges from a silent street along which during the day nothing moved except for the smart black sun sucking painted vehicles that now owned the roads. By the time he parked, he still hadn’t figured out what he was going to do with the girl. He wasn't even sure why he had got her, except for old time's sake. She had said they should stay friends. Maybe it had out of curiosity, or the need ...

At first glance Michael didn't recognize the girl. On the second, there was something familiar about the curve of her mouth, about her darkly glazed eyes. Her hair had been shorn rather than just cut. Razored right down to the scalp, and that was something hard to look past, at first. It made her look like the rest of the row of chained humans huddled in the corner of the night market, made her look naked. Made the ratty thin dress billowed down over her narrow shoulders seem transparent. Thr...