Torn (Cold Awakening)
“It was a flash drive. Nearly archaic, used only for the kind of data you couldn’t trust to transmission over the network and so reserved for hand-to-hand exchange. The drive had Chinese ideograms scratched across its length, which I assumed meant that Jude had picked it up during his stint at Aikida. Or at least that he wanted me to think so. I slid it into my pocket before Riley could see, and resolved not to think about it again until I was alone.
Which came sooner than I expected. Nested in ...Riley’s arms, my head safely cradled on his shoulder as the car carried us through the pitch-black night, I didn’t watch the nav screen or chart the twisting roads as we swept past. We stopped in an empty lot, the Windows of Memory glowing in the distance, the poisoned sea still a dark hole in the night. My car was waiting.
“You okay to drive home alone, or you want me to follow you?” Riley asked.
I had assumed we would go back to his place. Talk about what had happened.
Or not talk.
“I’m okay,”MoreLess
Which came sooner than I expected. Nested in ...Riley’s arms, my head safely cradled on his shoulder as the car carried us through the pitch-black night, I didn’t watch the nav screen or chart the twisting roads as we swept past. We stopped in an empty lot, the Windows of Memory glowing in the distance, the poisoned sea still a dark hole in the night. My car was waiting.
“You okay to drive home alone, or you want me to follow you?” Riley asked.
I had assumed we would go back to his place. Talk about what had happened.
Or not talk.
“I’m okay,”MoreLess
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