Survivors by Sophie Littlefield

Author:Sophie Littlefield
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: LUNA
Published: 2011-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Back in the tent, Smoke and Feo had returned. The boy sat gingerly on the edge of their bed, very straight, as if holding his breath. His long hair had been washed and hung in a dripping, glossy sheet, but he didn’t bother to wipe away the beads of water that trailed down his face, some settling in his long dark eyelashes before rolling down over his brown cheeks and solemn mouth to fall in his lap. He was dressed in what looked like a woman’s sweat suit and Cass made a mental note to tell the guys to find him something else—something a boy would like. At least the clothes were clean.

Smoke was turned away, lining up the things on their shelf. In the plastic box Cass saw that there was an extra toothbrush, a child’s stubby purple one. She and Smoke and nearly everyone else in the Box had switched to the ones cut from woody kaysev stems; people said they did a better job even than real toothbrushes.

The toothbrush was a special gift, something to remind the boy of Before, which had presumably been a better time for him. So, too, was the privacy Smoke gave him, pretending indifference as he tended to his housekeeping. Feo’s hungry eyes roved over the homey inside of the tent with its treasure trove of books and pictures cut from magazines and Ruthie’s toys, the silver candlesticks and the pretty rug and the stained-glass panels, the home they had made together. The family they had made together, a mother and daughter and the man who found them after they thought every good thing was gone.

Cass averted her own eyes, turned away and adjusted Ruthie’s covers. She recognized the longing in the boy’s eyes and, like Smoke, she turned away, to give him privacy to enjoy a tiny sliver of something nice.

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