Chapter Eight
Ashes to Ashes
“Talking with eyes is the beginning of love.”—Tork
Manifesto the Great and LM-2 watched the scattering of ashes from a distance. LM-2 looked at the leader, his small frame shrunk with grief.
Grief was something she barely remembered, her heart having toughened over the years like the callus of an old foot.
LM-2 went underground the day she decided that Aliens were not for her.
Hell-bent on an existence that gave women some sort of choice, even if it was just coffee, she was devoted to Fanny’s vision, despite Fanny being the most annoying woman on the planet.
Fanny had rigged up the basement of her husband’s office as the underground headquarters where LM-2 spent her time making leaflets and trying to persuade Fanny that there was nothing more to a bra th
