A Belly Full of Hope

It had been less than half a year since Cleo and Maura escaped to Veridian. As two young girls, they'd already seen the worst of people.

They managed to land an off-the-books job, but the boss kept shortchanging them, never paid them properly, and in the end just tossed them a few pieces of bread and told them to get lost.

Later, they ended up cleaning a grimy, smoke-filled internet café. But the