Resist
“I said, probably for the fifth time during the interrogation. Technically, it was a post-mission report, but since the Resistance had lost such an important member, it felt more hostile.
“You don’t know where the prisoners were?” Dad asked.
“I don’t know.”
“Where was Blaze while you were gone?”
“The alley. I asked him to stay in the alley.” A cold shock of guilt chilled me. I’d told him to stay. Had he died there, waiting for me? The alley hadn’t held a footprint. Not a speck of blood. Almost l...ike we’d never been there.
“You don’t know who the girl was who helped you?”
“I don’t know.”
And I didn’t. My dad recorded my answers, a look of supreme doubt in his eyes. I wanted to shake him, make him understand. I was his son; I was the one who joined the Resistance when my older brother wouldn’t. I desperately needed my dad to believe me.
I opened my mouth to explain it again, but I didn’t have different words that would work. I’d told him what had happened, right down to the detail of that girl’s crazy-controlling eyes.MoreLess
“You don’t know where the prisoners were?” Dad asked.
“I don’t know.”
“Where was Blaze while you were gone?”
“The alley. I asked him to stay in the alley.” A cold shock of guilt chilled me. I’d told him to stay. Had he died there, waiting for me? The alley hadn’t held a footprint. Not a speck of blood. Almost l...ike we’d never been there.
“You don’t know who the girl was who helped you?”
“I don’t know.”
And I didn’t. My dad recorded my answers, a look of supreme doubt in his eyes. I wanted to shake him, make him understand. I was his son; I was the one who joined the Resistance when my older brother wouldn’t. I desperately needed my dad to believe me.
I opened my mouth to explain it again, but I didn’t have different words that would work. I’d told him what had happened, right down to the detail of that girl’s crazy-controlling eyes.MoreLess
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