Chapter 10
The day passed slowly. I kept checking the time on my console and thinking, Now we’d go to the cafeteria for lunch. Now we’d have a reading assignment in class. Now we’d have a test. I wondered what the kids in our year were being told about Kyer’s and my absences. Surely someone would ask Brin or Lyra where we were. What did the Colony tell them?
I was surprised to find I could still connect to the Colony’s Archives through my console. Apparently whoever controlled such things hadn’t blocked my access. I wasn’t familiar with the news service—I rarely bothered to check the headlines, and had never read a full article before—but even though the format was easy to navigate, I could find nothing about our escape. Was the Overseer covering it up? Pretending it hadn’t happened?
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