Chapter 20
What if the screen had activated at Kyer’s entrance and the Monitor on duty sent Officers to retrieve him? What if, even now, they were escorting him to the Health Center, where he would be forced to take the pills and forget the way he felt for me? What if Sinda was right, and they gave him the black pill upon capture and disposed of his body in the incinerator? I’d never see him again, and worse, I’d never know what had happened.
My mind whirled at the possibilities. I hammered a fist on the door. “Kyer!”
On the other side, I heard movement. “Hold up,” he said, his voice muffled. Was there fear in it?
I didn’t know, and that not knowing only made me more upset. I pounded the door again. “Kyer! Let me in!”
I jiggled the bar, but could only open the door slightly; the gap w
