Watching Ani hang all over Quinn, watching Quinn hang all over everyone else. Talking about nothing. Scaling buildings and jumping off cliffs, trying to feel.Not normal: Ariana Croft, a girl with a stranger's name and my face, arrested for the corp-town attack. My face all over the vids, panic evident in wide-eyed protestations of innocence. The looks I was getting from the other mechs, the same kind of peripheral gaping I'd endured at school right after the downloads, randoms passing me in the hall, pretending to fix their eyes on the ground when really they were soaking me in, absorbing every inch of the freakitude so they could report back to their friends. Now, Jude and Riley were the only ones who didn't watch me like they were half expecting me to strike again. Jude because he never looked at me at all unless he had to. Riley because his look was different. Waiting for me to break, I thought more than once, catching his eye just before he turned away. Not going to happen.In the not-normal column: not backing up my memories, not once since the attack.
