Rather than point out they weren't actually on a date he asked, "Is what they think that important to you?" No," she whispered. "You just don't unders...and." Then explain it to me," Jason said."You've never been a foster kid going to public school. You've always been a local kid with family around. You had your pawpaw, sisters, and friends to look out for you." And so you dress like a boy and keep your head down," Jason guessed."Exactly," Di said with a hard glint in her eye. "Don't attract. ”“My mom said she was tired of being stuck in the house all of the time,” Bill said.Selena asked, “Did you ever tell a teacher that your dog ate your homework when you hadn’t done it?”“I’ve done something like that,” Bill said.“That’s what your mother is doing. She’s making up an excuse for her behavior when there really isn’t an excuse. She’s blaming you just like you blamed the dog. You didn’t do anything wrong,” Selena said.“She was stuck here because of us,” Bill said.“Nonsense. Lots of. The doctor was relieved to see us.“Ooryphyon is upset and is crying piteously. She believes her parents are dead. She repeats her regret over and over to everyone who will listen. She says they should not be dead. We cannot reassure her and I don’t want to sedate her unless I have no other option. We should begin her rehabilitation as soon as possible and she must exert herself fully.“My Lord I will take you to her, she cannot speak, but her telepathy is powerful. We fear she will have. .yet I am greedy for another. I am not ready to die!The void claims me.***Consciousness comes back to me very gradually. I slowly open my eyes. I am aware of splintered wood beneath me along with a tattered and crumpled rough green tarpaulin. I had hit something that had some give to it, enough to save me from instant death anyways. Though with the pain I was in it seemed a cruel mercy. I see the overpass I had fallen from above. Smoke still rose from it, but much less now. It must have been.