Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches collection) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Author:Rebecca Roanhorse [Roanhorse, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
Published: 2023-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

There’s a package propped up against my dorm room door. I scoop it up but don’t open it until I’m inside and the door’s locked. I check the return address, scared that it might give me away somehow, that the courier or one of my hall mates read it and it said Senator K’lorna. But it’s just some generic post locale, and I relax.

I tear it open to find an authorization ID tag and a holo. I click the holo on, and it shows me a map to a restaurant on level twenty, the time I’m supposed to be there flashing in green. It doesn’t say it’s from the Senator, but it’s no coincidence I’d get authorization and an invitation to Genteel territory on the station on the day the Streams say the Senator’s going to arrive.

I think about throwing the package away. Pretending like it never arrived. But that’s just delaying the inevitable. If I don’t come, he’ll track me down, and I’d rather meet him at some Genteel restaurant than have him on campus.

The clock says I’ve still got a few hours to burn, so I shower and dress, pick out the one Genteel-style suit I brought with me because he’ll expect me to wear one. I carefully fix my hair and shine my shoes, and then I sit in my chair and watch the time pass.

The Senator didn’t say anything, but I can feel in my bones the reason he’s come. I look around my little room. Three weeks wasn’t bad. Three weeks was the illusion of freedom, and it was good. I met a girl. I did okay in my classes. I kept my nose clean.

Maybe it was enough.

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