Chapter 50 Beyond Human

• Piper
• The hall feels stifling, the sheer size of it doing nothing to calm my nerves. Everywhere I turn, there’s a woman stronger, taller, or more confident than me.I can’t stop shifting from one foot to the other, the name tag pinned to my chest feeling more like a mark of humiliation than identification. Piper, it reads in bold, cursive letters.
• Around me, twenty-nine other women chatter, stretch, and eye the weight racks like predators circling their prey.