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Giggy:

>To me youre still a ponytail and crooked smile bouncing on Caitlins bed. But I guess children grow.

OK then, since were remembering things: what *I* remember most is slow hands.

Cutting out Launchday ornaments with the heatfaucet? Slow hands, Siggy. You can only cut it once.

Pitching with one out left and six runners on bulkhead? Slow hands. He wants a fastball. Give him a curve, right where he swings weak.

Crying my eyes out because I ran away from the Olaf Creche again, had nowhere else to go, didnt steal enough food, covered in bruises, no place in the ship for me, nobody to wipe away the tears like you and Vera would do for Ndugu? Slow hands, Siggy. The world didnt give you much, but it gave you hands. Family and home are things you make.

Dont talk to me like Im other people. Dont just drift away from me. I know what I did. I thought I could still keep him safe and I couldnt. Hit me with it. I know you blame me. Maybe you should. But talk to me.

Bad enough that you disappeared. I have to find out from a damn wanted poster that youve started this...group? Prayer circle? I know it cant be a cult. Not for the man who thinks science and god are antonyms. What are you even praying to?

I would have disappeared with you, if you asked me to. You know that, right?

Sigrid



Siggy,

Vera and I weren't even sure you remembered that night. You were so young. Did you know they came after you? Woman from the creche pounded on our door for almost an hour. Shouting about Olaf Creche losing out on child unit funding. How shell sic the constable on all of us. 

Eventually we open up. Vera has four inches of ceramic knife in her right hand and a fat stick of credits in her left; gives the Creche woman the choice. Vera says, were funding the girl now. I miss Vera. Woman could negotiate the electrons out of a covalent bond.

>I know you blame me.

I dont.

>But talk to me.

I wont.

>Not for the man who thinks science and god are antonyms. What are you even praying to?

Lets just say I found a path right down the middle.

-G

