Chapter 10 · free to read
Sixty point four kilograms, eleven days out. The class with a place left in it was fifty-seven.
Sixty point four. Fifty-nine eight. Fifty-eight nine. The pit stayed watered every morning. She did not drink from that well for four days.
Rung five: fifty-six point nine. Cost: three and a half kilos, four days of well water she drew for other people, and a father who had stopped speaking to her at meals.
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