Chapter 13
Jayanta couldn’t get the nauseous feeling to go away as she walked the two blocks from the commtrain station to Kai’s house. Today had been one of those days when she wished she was back at the Hogann, ready to crawl down into the sleeping nest and cuddle up against her grandmother and listen to the old woman’s raspy humming until she fell asleep. It’s funny, she thought, how such little things stay with you throughout your life, the smell of a favorite food, the comfort of a voice. She knew there were other memories out there that she hadn’t accessed yet, memories about her father and mother, her early childhood, but all she could remember were the feelings from being at the Hogann with Grandmother and Kai. Rhyannon had explained that the brain only acknowledges what it’s read
