Chapter Seven
It took me a long time to make myself leave Mari outside her classroom the next morning. I couldn’t convince myself I’d actually be allowed to take her home at the end of the day.
That was the problem with living in the domes. If I fought them, demanded I be allowed to sit in the back of her class so I could make sure she was safe, the kep could lock me up again. Or decide Mari had to live with Miranda permanently. Or look into our past, trying to see what had made me so intent on protecting my sister from the Incorporation, and find out that I hadn’t been transferred from the Ice Domes. That I wasn’t supposed to be in the domes at all.
Push too hard. Say the wrong thing. Refuse to cooperate, and I could lose the right to protect my sister at best. Get us both thrown out o
