Chapter Twenty
Joel was blind. At least temporarily.
“He told you to close your eyes,” Sam reminded him as she sat him on the couch in the common area.
“When someone tells me to close my eyes, my immediate reaction is to open them wider so I can see whatever it is they don’t want me to see. How was I supposed to know what he didn’t want me to see was a blinding white light?”
“Because he told you to close your eyes.”
Joel scoffed.
Sam rolled up his sleeve and injected the medical nanites into his arm. “Your sight will return within the hour.”
“What am I supposed to do until then?”
“Sit here and think about how you’re blind because you can’t follow directions.”
Sam left Peppy to look after Joel, then joined Cody and Reggie on the bridge, careful to make as little noise as she could
