"We talked, between me being waterboarded in freezing cold water and left naked in a cage, and her being strung up with rope by her throat, then taken down and beaten. She told me that she’d flirted with some guy in town, and Gideon had been so enraged that he’d kept her down there ever since. I figured out then that as soon as Lily was shoved out, then I was brought in. I’d been on the fringes of the Garden for about two months, anyway, in that I knew Gideon and I thought he was – was my boyfriend.”
She sighed and muttered, “So stupid.” Then she continued:
“I’d met some of the men who I later realized were Guardians, and some of the women too. It had all been really casual – like meeting for a picnic or at a restaurant – and I felt like I was part of the group. You know? Like I was tot
