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Laughter echoes off the hallways and I hear the clickety-clack of fingers over a keypad My phone sits snugly in my hand like an old friend There’s no service, but I can look at ot cracked at so a cell phone until someone handed me a cord and said, “Want to use this?”

Cell phones

Computers

Electricity

Laughter

I look around the roo had happened—or was happening—outside this place There are still Eaters out there I know that There are Hybrids on the run, slipping across the country like scurrying ants There are Mutts in hiding—trying to figure out their next one and no one told them what to do once the battle was over, or ould happen to thee

“Nalance at Wyatt one desk over and his eyes pierce htest of nods

“Alexandra Ramsey”

“Age?”

“Twenty”

“Place of origin?”

I hesitate thinking back over the last year-and-a-half Catlettsburg, Asbury, then Catlettsburg before that I had a stretch of traveling froia, but also spent time in Tennessee I think past the Vaccine Center and Phar, when I met Cole and Wyatt When I was still with my mother I blink at the man whose hands wait over the keyboard for my answer

“Raleigh, North Carolina”

He types this inforht I watch as he scribbles so on a small, blue card with a plastic pen