Children Of Ash: A Meridian Six Novella - Plot & Excerpts
He waved something in the air. “Six! Six!” I was sitting in front of the fire listening to Icarus and Dare argue over who should take the blame for how low our food stores had gotten. Happy for the excuse to escape their bickering, I rose from my spot to meet the kid. He thrust a rock into my hands. It was heavy and roughly the size of a grapefruit. Grapefruit? What a strange thing. When was the last time I’d had one of those? Sometimes when I was young, Mom would bring pink ones home from the neighborhood farmers’ market and we’d share one together on the fire escape outside the window of our impossibly small kitchen. My mouth watered now, thinking about how the fruit had tasted like sunshine and sugar—sweeter still, because of the company. “Six?” Rabbit’s voice pulled me out of the tunnels of memory and back to the present. The meager light from the fire gave the air a reddish tinge and each breath was thick with wood smoke.
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