Reject Me, Alpha Tate
Light moved through the trees in the slow way it did at this hour, and the institute beyond the hedges was its usual hum of distant doors and footsteps.
"Two more pages," I said, "then it's time to go in."
Maple held up the apple. "I'm not finished."
"You can finish inside."
He looked at the apple, calculated, and took an enormous bite in protest, and Rosy sighed in the way she sighed at him sometimes.
Amber read the last two pages as Maple finished the apple. Rosy asked a question about why the fox in the story hadn't told the truth earlier, when it would have been easier, and I said sometimes people wait until they're ready and sometimes they wait too long.
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