Fraeternal
Billy grins at me over his coffee. “You’re holding out on me, Sis.”
“I’m not.” I fish the teabag out of my cup and set it on the saucer. This roadside diner isn’t fancy enough to have anything but Lipton, but that’s okay. The nurses make the tea too strong and bitter, and bottled teas taste weird to me. Especially after all the psychoactive meds we’ve been taking. We got doses of our daily experimental regime just two hours ago, and the drugs have a ridiculous laundry list of possible side effects we haven’t felt yet, but you never know. I’m not sure either of us should be away from the research facility.
“We’re going straight back after this, right?” Any minute, I expect Agent Mainward and a bunch of armed guards to come swarming through the door to retrieve us. “I don’t wan
