Day Eight, one minute before midnight. It would be Day Nine soon. Kodi lay back on her bed, staring up at the ceiling without actually seeing anything.
This was easy, she thought. All she had to do was pretend. She was good at that, wasn't she? She didn't know the technical terms of the trade and didn't have a classical education in theater like the others did, but she had her instincts, and she had a little experience. She could take that and pretend that real life? Was just another stage.
It was hard sometimes, like whenever she thought about how the sight of her face now was either a running joke or a bullseye target for everyone in the city. Or what she was going to do when she set down this acting stint and went back to college to finish her degree, sitting next to hundreds of other
