Origins of Honor: An Action-Thriller Collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oscar Mike Foundation
Published: 2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

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They met the following day. They met the day after that, and the day following. They skipped classes and walked along the greenways, where Amy pointed out various plants and how and in what form they could be used to aid the healing process. They had picnics, and they strolled through museums. Mostly, they talked. When they didn’t talk, they laughed. They sat at what they considered their table and they talked. She told him about the Nations and he was an avid listener. She told him of her family, of her grandfather, who was the tribe’s medicine man and how he had trained her to follow in his footsteps. He had trained her since childhood, teaching her the mixes of herbs, roots, and other parts of plants. She shared the argument they had had when she told him she wanted to go to the Mega-City university and to learn about the medicine taught there.

“Why didn’t he want you to come?” Walton asked.

“He was afraid I would not come home. He worried; worries still, that I will become fascinated by the city and all that is here.”

Walton shook his head, “There is nothing here to become fascinated over. They limit us in all that we do. In fact, they could cite me for spending time with you as I have not gotten permission from the Committee in Charge of Male/Female Social Interactions.”

“You have to ask a committee to spend time with me?”

“To be proper, yes.”

She smiled, “So ask them.”

He shook his head.

“No, if I ask, they will automatically refuse the request. We are not supposed to think or decide, to show initiative; they expect us to wait passively until some unknown member of some committee makes all important decisions for us.”

She canted her head and studied him from the corner of her eyes.

“So,” she said, “you are not supposed to be seen with me without a permission slip and if you request the slip, they will not allow you to be seen with me?”

Walton’s grin was sarcastic, “Well said.”

“Are you worried about spending time with me?” she asked, “In public?”

He shook his head.

“No. For the first time, in my life, I really want to spend time with someone. I’ve got two friends I’ve known all my life, but outside of them, I don’t spend time with anyone. If the committee gets upset over the two of us talking, so be it.”

Walton didn’t know it, not at the time, but the committee was the least of his problems.

Mrs. Miriam Jones, looked up from the magazine she had been leafing through when she heard, and then saw, Walton walk through the door into the apartment. As a rule, he lived on campus, but they expected him to be home for dinner a minimum of once a week. Tonight, was that night. Mother Jones, as she liked to be called, sat on the sofa, and watched her son approach. When he closed the distance, she canted her head to receive the kiss he gave her on her cheek.

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