The Price of Warmth

It really was awful to eat, but it did fill you up.

"That's exactly it," Megan said to Thomas. "We've still got plenty of people at the base surviving on these two pieces of bread a day."

Thomas's mouth worked, but in the end he said nothing more. He only threw himself harder into the work.

Harper went along when the bread was handed out. When she saw a crowd in worn, ragged clothes come forward l