Barefaced Animal

Mimi has spent the last 20 years asleep.

Deep beneath the bowels of The City, she was one of many children taken as living batteries to power the world above. But now she awakens in an unfamiliar orphanage, given a new chance at a normal life.

Lexi tasted blood 20 years ago.

He first opened his eyes in a pool of his mother’s blood, one of many children born orphaned in the streets of The City. Now, he’s been living a normal life for years, head cook in the orphanage where he was raised.

But what does “normal” mean for something less than human?