Chapter 17
games that leave bruises
words that pierce hearts – it all hurts!
let me close my eyes
I wound up at the Enso, the tiny puff of heat I pushed into the door barely qualifying as magic. The door clanked and whirred anyway, letting me in. I’d planned to stay at Jericha’s, but my head was throbbing and all I wanted to do was sleep.
“Viv and Ava?” I asked the small arachnid automaton, too tired to form a full sentence as I removed my boots. I’d pulled the hood of my long sleeveless sweater over my head, hiding in my thoughts and avoiding the eyes of any passersby as I’d made my way here. Now, I yearned to wrap my mother’s sweater around me like a cocoon and hibernate for several weeks. If only life could have been that simple. This was the Enso, and I had to follow protocol, eve
