Chapter Two
“I just want to help,” Nola said for the hundredth time as she followed her mother through the seed cold-storage room.
“Magnolia, I don’t have time for this,” Lenora snapped, moving to the next row to check the temperature of the seed trays.
“You would have more time if you let me help you!” Nola let her voice ring off the walls.
Lenora stopped moving and pinched the bridge of her nose. “I know you want to help. You are a wonderful girl who wants to help the domes, and I appreciate that more than you will ever know. But right now, the most important thing is to protect these seeds. Without these seeds, the people in the domes could starve, and even if we managed to survive on corn, we would leave nothing for future generations to bring back out into the world. The Vamper sc
