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Sixteen
On the train
3/4/2030
7:00pm
The train conductor bot just announced the next stop. All three children sat together holding hands. Discouraged and exhausted, their wet and red rimmed eyes had people staying away from them.
What if they had the Virus, they thought.
Not long after, they slept, having troubling dreams of their own. Alpha stayed alert, silently watching over them from Dayo's Celo.
Ovic Incorporation
4/4/2030
12 noon
“So are you going to do it or not?”
Sharon observed as Yomi set Third to abuse her husband physically and verbally, and yet Dayo didn't budge from his mute position. Her heart tugged at the sight of bruises all over him but she couldn't do anything. She had to pl
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