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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A great flood is swallowing the world, and in the middle of it all, he’s being mauled by a bear. He’s more annoyed than terrified. As if the flood isn’t enough, his deep, dark mind has to send an angry grizzly to tear into him.
“Quiet-or-we-tranq-you,” says Mouthpiece, like it’s all one word.
Starkey marvels at the unfairness of it all. How could this be? How is it possible that the great champion of runaway Unwinds is just some ordinary kid?
“Is that a threat?” “I don’t know—was that an insult?”
He was told he would have permanent tremors in his hands and a slur in his speech. Didn’t happen.
Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can’t remember being well? What if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn’t want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn’t want kids to know how much power they really had.
Griping is for those without a plan of action—and
“Don’t tell me—you came programmed with the entire Bible.” “In three languages,” Cam says. “Again, not my fault, it’s just there.”
To look at an airplane head on, one might get the uncanny feeling that it has eyes. No doubt the planes of the Graveyard have witnessed many things, and perhaps they are the only ones with a clear perspective of fight and folly on the day the Juvenile Authority invades.
Even when Connor looks at Lev, he doesn’t seem to recognize him at first, and Lev knows it’s more than just the hair. Neither of them are the kids they were a year ago.
“Lev? What are you doing here? What, has the whole world gone nuts, and I’ve lost my mind?” “I’m sure both are true, but I’m really here.” Lev bends down and takes the tranq gun away from the cop Connor has just rendered unconscious. “I came to save you.” “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard!” “That’s probably true too, but I have to warn you: There’s a parts pirate after you.” “That’s the least of my problems right now!”
Death, as they say, doesn’t just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one.
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other, but laugh, laugh, laugh, Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.
