“Why didn’t you tell me?!” Perin demanded as soon as Lance answered the phone.
“Tell you what?” asked Lance, wondering what on earth his brother was talking about.
“That I’m no longer welcome in the compound. I went there today and was told that I have no job to go back to. For crying out loud, Dad didn’t even want to let me into the house!”
“Oh, s**t. Yeah well…” Lance should have expected this. He had been increasingly aware of the rumours and the negative feelings against Perin that were circulating through the compound, a lot of the residents feeling that he had been reckless and selfish for potentially exposing their existence to the humans. There was a general consensus that he should be punished in some way for t
