(eng) Nancy Kress - Sleepless 03 by Beggars Ride
Author:Beggars Ride [Ride, Beggars]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Fourteen
Light on her face woke Theresa, and she cried out.
A moment later, she remembered where she was. Slumped on the window seat at the end of the upper-floor hallwayâsince last night? All night? Sheâd only meant to sit down a minute, look out at the park, escape her study for a little while.
Painfully she uncramped her body from the narrow seat. Her back ached, her neck felt stiff, her mouth tasted horrible. How long since sheâd slept, before last night? How long since sheâd eaten? She had lost track. Jackson hadnât been home for days. Theresa had been alone, locked in her study, watching the news grids and printing pictures for her wall. Pictures of dying unChanged babies, of adults fighting each other savagely for nonexistent Change syringes, of raids for Y-cones, for furniture, for terminals, on dipped enclaves in Oregon, in New Jersey, in Wisconsinâ¦Theresa had watched it all.
I am come to bear witness to the destruction of worlds. Thomas had found her the quote. Theresa had stared at it until her eyes blurred. Then she had stared at the newsgrids some more. Then she had stared at the message on her system, the message that should not have been there:
I saw the pictures of the Liver babies. You have to find Miranda Sharifi and make her give us some more Change syringes. Youâre a donkey, you have all this money, you can get to Miranda, in ways we canâtâ
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