Chapter 35: We're Out

A few minutes later, Autumn Sowden lay on the floor, crying without a sound. She had not gone all the way. It was only a Simulation Scene. Yet the sensations had been so brutally real that she still felt filthy, as if something inside her had been ruined for good. "Finally. That's enough!" Ethan Letherdale's excited murmur cut through the silence. Autumn forced herself to stop shaking. She wiped at her tears and looked up at him. "Can you get out?" "Should be able to," Ethan said after a brief...