The summer before their freshman year, after Jason refuted a few of his lies, Darren had called him a “half-breed” and other names straight from the Surplus, then leveled his toy pistol; Jason hit him twice, the right cross opening a cut above Darren’s eye. The violence was out of character for Jason; was he now including Darren to make it right? Yes, and the opposite: he was further punishing the perverted privileged subject of the empire.
