Origins: The Luna City Trilogy
Dakota murmurs reluctantly while biting her lip, eventually blurting out Mato’s question as her leg shakes tremulously, “-I told him to wait until you mentioned it yourself, seeing as how it didn’t come up yesterday while we were talking.”
Expecting the question to arise much sooner than it had, I take my pen and fill the page with the blanket answer I had fed everyone over the passing years. With not much to say, I pass the notepad over to Dakota, allowing her to read what I had written before she recites the bare basics back to her brother. With lowering eyebrows, her expression saddens as she scours my words—digesting each and every one while learning about the unanswered reason to why I