Plague Wars 06: Comes The Destroyer - Plot & Excerpts
By this he deduced they were even lower on standard food than they thought. She did add a dash of real chili pepper, and she put a bottle of his favorite Atascadero hot sauce on the table next to the plate she set before him, so life wasn’t so bad after all. “Thanks, Mom,” he said with put-on brightness designed to appease parents. Being polite deterred getting a lecture, which he supposed was the point, a kind of social symbiosis. “Where is everyone?” “Exploiting that Sentry,” she said as she plated some hash and then dumped the rest of it into four bowls. “Once you’re done you can take these to your brothers and sisters.” “Yeah, okay.” He shook drops of spicy sauce onto the plate and then shoveled seasoned hash into his mouth. Mom sat down across from him, looking at him the way mothers do. Or at least, the way mothers on TV seemed to, which was the same as his own mother. He’d never met anyone else’s mother for real. He focused on eating, hoping she wouldn’t start some kind of “conversation.”
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