By the time they brought Sera to Waste Reclamation, she already understood the first rule of surviving the surface of Hope Sanctuary.
Funny enough, it was the same rule for surviving the labs of Hope Sanctuary.
Become invisible.
And so far, she was doing a fantastic job at it.
No one looked at her. Not really. They kept their heads down and went about their day as if the world would end if they didn't do the one thing they were in charge of.
She followed the clerk as he took her down a corridor. Eventually, it led down into the lower tier that narrowed gradually with the concrete walls closing in just enough to make shoulders brush if two people passed each other.
The overhead lights flickered intermittently, not broken enough to warrant repair, but unreliable enough to keep everyone's eyes down. Electricity was produced by powers, and only those deemed worthy were given its privilege. She was surprised that even down here, they got some semblance of it.
