“We have a safe house. Come on.”
The walk back was a quiet, solemn affair for Anna. Instead of bringing back food, they were returning with yet another person in need of safety and supplies. Jena wouldn"t be happy, but she would bear it with her usual quiet dignity followed by bitter ranting. In the end, she would take in Krista without complaint.
The real problem, in Anna"s opinion, was her eagerness to leap into a fight just to prove her capability. Not so long ago, the thought of doing violence would have turned her stomach, and now she was eager for it? What exactly was this world doing to her? Well, it wasn"t the world itself…It was the way everyone with a Y-chromosome dismissed her as incompetent or irrelevant. She wanted to go home. She would do her duty to the bitter end, but the
