Subversive by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
Published: 2015-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Micah kept his word. No one went down to blow anything up, and gradually my strength returned. Sometimes I could even get through the night without waking up in pain.

And still no Jason.

But the Lyons did. My little speech to Micah seemed to have spurred them forward. Carol, Tia, Patrick, Davis and Tad took it upon themselves never to leave me alone, which I loved more than I would have thought. Apparently, since Chad’s death they’d thought I hadn’t wanted to be alone with them.

Carol had left me a loaf of bread and ham for lunch. I’d made myself a sandwich.

Keith stuck his head through my tent flap, his eyes closed. “You decent in here?”

When we lived below, we’d had doorbells. Up here we were still working out the kinks of how to enter each other’s homes.

I laughed and stood. “I am. Come on in.”

“Good.” He opened his eyes and walked into my home. “Looks good in here.”

“Thanks to you guys.”

He stepped farther inside. “I came to make sure you were really up for going out tonight. You could take more time.”

“I need to get back out there. The longer I wait, the harder it will be. I might start to feel like a non-Warrior and think I have the right not to get killed. What would happen to the world if I started to believe that?”

He raised his hands in surrender. “Wow, Rachel. You’re getting downright political on me.”

“No, I couldn’t be less interested in politics.” Particularly since that would put me in the realm of the turtle, a person whose unpleasantness I’d managed to avoid since I’d come out of the medic tent.

“You keep talking like that and people are going to accuse you of having unpopular ideas. Dangerous thoughts.”

“Since when is it not okay to think so-called bad things?” Of course I knew the answer—it had never been okay to go against Icahn. Why was I the only one who knew we had to change?

“In the few places I’ve lived, which is significantly more places than most people will even see, I’ve found that if you want to live a happy life, it’s best not rock the boat.”

He sighed. “Don’t be subversive.”

That was a word I didn’t hear often.

I thought we should have a choice about whether or not we continued to fight.

“I will fight tonight, Keith. I’ll fight tomorrow. I’ll fight every day until I die or until we come up with a better way to handle things.”

He grinned. “Sounds good to me. See you there, then. It’ll be good to have you out there fighting the good fight with us again.”

The good fight?

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