The Meme Plague (Memento Nora series Book 3) by Angie Smibert

Author:Angie Smibert [Smibert, Angie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: 2013-08-12T18:30:00+00:00

19.0

THE BEGINNING OF ENOUGH

VELVET

I told Micah to meet me at the garden. I practically wore a groove in the bamboo walk as I paced back and forth, my boots thudding roughly in time with the music Winter had blaring out of the sail-things. She and Lina were in their usual spot—the workshop—building antennae, routers, and the occasional robot. They are the perfect pair.

The boys were practicing under the Spider Climb on the Sasuke course. With Mr. Yamada’s permission, Aiden and the boys had built a tiny recording booth under the obstacle.

Finally, Micah rolled in the back way on his skateboard, messenger bag slung over his shoulder. “What’s the deal?”

I stomped up to him. I was so angry—not at him—I didn’t know where to start. “Your comic—” was all I could sputter out.

“What’s wrong with it?”

“Nothing!” I almost screamed. I took in a deep breath. “After I saw you at your place that day, I walked home past—” The image of the kid, the smoke, the cops crowded the words out of my brain. I took another deep breath and plunged my shaking hand into my pocket. “—where the TFC had just blown up. The cops were already there, pulling people out—and I stepped into one of those stupid coffin-things.” I shuddered without meaning to.

“I’m sorry, V. That must have been rough.” Micah stared at me, not quite getting the connection I was trying to make.

I tried again. “I was a block away when I felt the rumble, and by the time I got there, a few seconds later, the cops were already pulling out people. Like the cops—”

“Knew it was going to happen,” Micah said slowly. “Or do you mean—”

I nodded. It had been bugging me. There was zero time between the explosion and the cops getting there. In Micah’s cartoon, the cops—and the black vans—had been there earlier to bust up the protest. Micah hadn’t stuck around to see the aftermath. Maybe the cops or the black van people did something. I’d read the earlier Mementos posted on the MemeNet. The black vans always seemed to be in the vicinity of shit that blew up. And the black vans worked for TFC.

“What if TFC blew up one of its own clinics?” I asked.

“And they blamed it on the protestors.” Micah sank down onto the edge of the walkway, his head resting on his hands. Just for a moment. Then he slowly pulled out his sketch pad and pens. “Tell me exactly what you saw.”

That was the second issue of Memento 2.0—and the beginning of a song called “Enough.”

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