Quit the job, stay home, depend on us entirely, and then you are ours.

They had built the cage so slowly I had helped them hang the door.

And it was only when the last bar went up that I could finally see the whole shape of it — and understand that if I did not get out that night, I never would.

Chapter 4 — The Grate

So I made a decision, there on the floor, that I think saved my life.

I decided I was not going to be in that house when the sun came up.