The new inner-city residents were sent to a large auditorium. When they arrived, the splendour of it made it look more like a castle than an eating place. The food filled the table, and soft music played in the air.
The place appeared to be designed to enchant those who walked in. Long communal tables overflowed with food. Platters of meat, bowls of fruit, and wine. They were all ushered to tables and places in front of the fantastical food.
Ember looked at the food before her and couldn't help feeling something was strange. There was no way this kind of food should be here. Ember couldn't remember the last time they saw animals that hadn't mutated.
Yet, she looked across the table, and on it sat a suckling pig, obviously free of mutation. She briefly thought about the system Valentina had. Could it be the reason for all of this? And if it was, why?
