They All Fall Down
That I could still make my own body scream, even if my voice was useless in the wider world.
It was a pathetic kind of power. But in the long, silent midnight of a stolen world, it was the only power I had left.
“Michael,” I said, my voice flat against the drumming water. “You can make yourself vibrate. The watch. You have a haptic feedback mechanism.”
“Yes, of course,” his voice came, filtered and tiny over the shower’s roar. “It is designed for notifications and discreet alerts.”
“Good.”