Everyone treated her with kid gloves, which got on Alyssalee’s last nerve. She was trying to be gracious about it. The sacrifices made for her demanded it. Nonetheless, the inevitable happened as Sophie reached out to help her up as they were about to leave the cafeteria table. “I got this!” Alyssalee snapped.
A long-drawn-out “Sorry” was all Sophie replied with, along with a hurt smile.
Her muscles hadn’t returned to her pre-brain-scramble-state as quickly as her mind had. Alyssalee felt her concentration and clarity of thought were better now. She resolved this was because she was out of the business of thinking for a few centuries. All her feebleness aside, if she was popular at the SNCC before the incident, she now had reached rockstar status. Everywhere she went, people were over-th
