Chapter 38 - Fight Free
After three bloody skirmishes, Abha had given the call. They’ve retreated into the compound. William’s thirsty, feeling weaker. The strongest ones of the fighters position themselves at the chokepoints.
William thinks about how they must destroy any ability to use what lies underneath this building. We must destroy it. And protect the books that show how to create another.
William helps Lomash into a back room. “You don’t fear helping a Dalit?” Lomash asks him.
“A Dalit woman helped save my life last week,” William responds.
“Good, you know another Dalit,” he smiles weakly. “The only people who see everything happening in this world are Dalits.”
“Perhaps Dalits should give advice to the libraries about how to proceed,” William says, half-joking, laying the old
