Writing prompts: Children of blood & bone

 I pause for a moment, aghast at the number of them filling the narrow path. Before today, I caught only glimpses of the laborers brought in to staff the palace—always pleasant, clean, groomed to Mother’s satisfaction. Like Binta, I thought they lived simple lives, safe within the palace walls. I never considered where they came from, where else they might have ended up, “Skies…” It’s almost too hard to bear the sight. Mostly diviners, the laborers outnumber the villagers by hordes, dressed in nothing but tattered rags. Their dark skin blisters under the scorching sun, marred by the dirt and sand seemingly burned into their beings. Each is hardly more than a walking skeleton.  After reading a chapter, there will be a quote from the story. Write about how the idea could be relevant to the real world and its people. A message I take from this scene is, "Their dark skin blisters under the scorching sun, marred by the dirt and sand seemingly burned into their beings. Each is hardly more than a walking skeleton." When reading this, the details that are being used for how the villagers look give me the same view of child labor. It's not just in this book that people are suffering from this, it's actually happening to children and adults in many countries around us. This is compared to child labour because children or even adults work for hours just to get a small amount of water and food, even if the weather conditions are really bad.