"Animals! Why? Alfy knew, didn't he! He must have known I had a nightmare tonight!" Sarah said while shaking. Kill animals. First her nightmare of working with bodies, and now she had to kill animals. "I think so, or he wouldn't have signed you up there," Niels told her. Sarah started shivering badly. "I… I don't think I can do this…" she said, tears coming up and unable to stop them. Niels pulled her closer and gave her a big her. "You will survive this day. It's just one day! Tomorrow you will work for another Keeper, I promise it will be fine!" Niels tried to reassure her. But Sarah couldn't stop thinking about her dream. "Do you think they knew what I did? Back in the lab?" Sarah asked him. The horrors of her dream, of her memories, still followed her. "I really don't know, Cherry. I don't think anyone remembers anything about their life before the maze. But if Alfy does and he suspects you were one of them, you could really have a hard time here," Niels told her. Sarah shaked of the weird feeling. She wanted to prove she was just like the others, then she had to act like it as well. "You know what? I'm gonna do this. And I'll prove to everyone that I am capable of handling myself!" Sarah said, more to ensure herself then to ensure Niels. With her head high in the air, and a big smile on her face, Sarah started walking toward the big building which held all the animals.

While she entered the building, Sarah heard many animals scream in pain. She couldn't handle this, how did she ever think she could. She loved them, how could she slaughter them? "You must be the new chick? I'm Jefferson, Keeper of the Slicers. Alfy told me to test you today, but looking at your blue eyes, I have a feeling you can't handle much… Had enough sleep last night?" Jefferson asked her. Sarah looked at him, eyes wide and filled with surprise. "No, I had a major nightmare. I think Alfy heard me scream and decided to show me the worst he could today. As punishment for me rejecting him," Sarah told him in all honesty. Jefferson rubbed his head. "That may very well be possible. Alfy isn't a bad guy, but sometimes I feel like he thinks the world revolves around him. And that is not true. I get that he wants to punish you, but I can't work with a traumatised girl and he knows that," Jefferson thought out loud. He looked around and saw a young boy, around twelve, walk around the building. "Hey! Eddie! Take Sarah with you and feed the animals. Then show her the newborns and take care of them too!" Jefferson yelled at the boy, who immediately walked up to them. "Yes, sir! But, sir… Newbies are often brought to the slaughterhouse, why isn't she?" the boy, Eddie, asked Jefferson. Jefferson shaked his head. "No questions, just do it!" he told the boy and send him away. "Well, go ahead! Follow him!" he nudged Sarah and she started following the boy.

"So, we have cows and sheep and goats and pigs! Oh and we have many chickens. Some of them have chicks, they are so fluffy and cute. You'll see them soon enough! We keep the chickens for the eggs of course. And we use the cows and goats for our milk and cream. The goat milk is actually nice with some of the spices we grow. Our cook often uses it in his dishes. Oh and we shave our sheeps for wool, obviously! Our weavers make clothes from our wool, as well as from our cotton. We can harvest a lot of things here ourselves, you know! It took a lot of work, but us Slicers are really proud of ourselves that we can provide for the others in the Glade," Eddie kept rambling. Sarah just nodded and kept following him to the foodstore. "Here, you can feed the sheep and goat. Just get the big spoon and put five full spoons in all of their baskets. After you're done, get them hay and they will be happy," Eddie explained as he walked up to the cows with his sack of food. Sarah took her sack with disbelieve and followed him again to the stables. On her left she saw three stalls filled with each two goats and four stalls with each three sheep. In all baskets she put the food Eddie told her to give them and then headed for the back of the stables where she found the hay. This work wasn't that bad and Eddie and Jefferson were kinda nice too. She could survive this day, but Sarah hoped she wouldn't make a good enough impression for Alfy to decide she should stay here.

After Eddie and Sarah were done feeding the animals they left the stables and headed for another small building. "This is where we keep our pregnant animals and newborns," Eddie explained to her and they headed inside. The place was amazing and Sarah couldn't help but smile. It wasn't that the place was beautiful or huge, but all the young animals were amazing to see. "See, that lam lost his mother a week ago. You want to feed him milk?" Eddie asked her and all Sarah could do was nod. Eddie gave her some milk and Sarah walked over to the young lam. She took him on her lap and gave him his bottle of warm milk. "Is this goat milk too?" Sarah asked Eddie. "Yeah. Sheeps and goats have almost the same nutritions, so we give him and other orphans goat milk to drink," Eddie explained as he went on to do his next task. Sarah slowly petted the young ram while he drank. "You know, you should have a name… How about David? It was the name of a childhood friend of mine," Sarah told the ram. He seemed to like it, because he spit out the bottle and bellowed. "You like the name, don't you little David," Sarah cooed to him and gave him the bottle again.

After half an hour the bottle was empty and little David was happy. "He likes you, you know. I don't know if you'd make a good Slicer, but you do have a way with animals," Eddie told her as he came walking down the aisle. "Thank you. Do you think I could keep visiting him, even if I get put in another working group?" Sarah asked him. "I don't think that will be a problem. Come on! We have to run to get our lunch!" Eddie told her and they ran out of the stables and up to the main building where the cook was serving lunch.