Chapter 17
a leaf on the wind
buffeted between three fates
knows not where it goes
I was still shaking twenty minutes later as I collected mail from Chalinex’s PGPS headquarters for hand-carrying back to Prime. I tried to focus, knowing it would be important for me to make friends here, now more than ever, but I had a hard time. More than one person noticed my unease, asked if everything was okay. Each time, I brushed them off with a reticent “family troubles,” which seemed to appease everyone.
I wasn’t lying. Jonah hated me, hated being ket. My cousins had drawn me deeper into their world of conspiracy, power, and politics. I’d started this trip wishing I was closer to my family and now I wondered if I’d been searching for comfort where it could never be found.
So, I kept the small
