It took a little while for my words to sink in. Kyer kept glancing around—at the screen, at the other people on the floor—nervous someone might somehow hear what we were talking about. I let him have all the time he needed to digest what I had said. As far as I knew it, in the history of the Colony, no one had ever gone outside of it before. Even the Elders, housed on the other side of the monorail, stayed inside the Elder Center. We were told they had everything they needed there and never had to return to the Colony…or leave the safety of their new home.
And why would they want to? Rumors abounded on the console—the sands were radioactive, even all these years after the last war; the ocean was unsanitary, full of carcasses and death; the sun shone too brightly beyond the Colony’s self-m
