After the usual pleasantries and bull shit I stepped aside to look for a good place to sulk for the next 3 weeks when Steve called for his girls. Leah... Penelope! He sounded. Shortly there after a young girl with dirty blond pigtails came stomping down the stairs. This is Penelope but everyone calls her Pepe for short. A minute or two later another girl came down the steep stairs. I felt my heart stop as the world froze and exploded all at once. Her wavy blond hair came down to her shoulders and. I rubbed a Candace’s cheek and held her jaw as I stared into her dark green eyes. The same color as the ribbon tied around my wrist. Incredibly, just three hours ago, I had been stopped at the East door, because I had wanted to avoid the same obvious delay at the front. I had been a keep my head down and escape at last bell kind of kid. That changed; me and five others had been gifted with a green ribbon which now meant we were in charge of the rest of the school, mostly.I hadn’t been sure what. . lot of dead rats. Hundreds ... They started here.” He motioned to the crack in the wall. “And from similar holes in this old place.” He gestured around to the others cells too. “ ... they didn’t die quick either. Most of them died in pain.”“That’s what it is,” Matt said. “Christ, kid was in pain ... and inflicted a lot of pain.”“The hunt-t-ters, they ... used fire, and ... burned all the rats,” she said.Art nodded, and followed the hall back out to the lobby again. “Yeah, death death and more. ”“Then I suppose our first order of business is to put things in place where they do,” Phil said, nodding. “I’m pretty sure you’re right about gifts to children. It came up in a business class last semester. A man put his stock portfolio in his children’s names when they were minors in order to shield himself from taxes. They refused to return them without compensation after their 18th birthday and the court ruled in their favor.”“I remembered that from something I heard but I didn’t know if it.