Walt and Saul Higgins are orphans; everything from the way they dress to the food that they eat is controlled by their ship leaders.
Walt watches as his mentally slow brother gets made fun of by a school teacher. He clenches his fists at the injustice of it all. He remembers holding his mother’s hand while she was dying. He looked into the eyes that were so pretty before the disease. The whites had turned yellow and they looked swollen with bags of purple surrounding them. “Promise me that… |
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