If she’d never gone out to support Amelia, she could have kept the first one…
“Are you awake?” Kaiya whispered.
Masuma’s head moved slightly to indicate assent. Her arm now draped across Kaiya’s body, and Kaiya held the languid hand, making circles on the back of it with her thumb.
“Have the nurses told you anything about what’s happening?” Kaiya asked. “Have they notified your parents?”
Masuma didn’t answer, but she did open her eyes.
Kaiya waited for half a minute before asking again, this time a little more forcefully.
“They had the Rapture,” Masuma said flatly.
The news didn’t even come as a surprise. After everything else Masuma had been through, what was another disappointment? That was the problem with Leth. If it wasn’t full of collaborators, then it was full of cowards. The
