11. A Better World’s Priorities
Mina
“Ben?”
“Yeah?”
“Have you been listening to a word I’ve said?”
Ben sighed. “We’re going to see the guy you knew about who got rejected by the pods before you,” he recounted.
“Yes.”
“He’s the crazy hermit who taught you about Splinters in the beginning. You and a bunch of other people who are already dead.”
“Yes.”
“And for some reason, you couldn’t tell me all this before?”
“Yes.”
I was more annoyed with The Old Man than with Ben for forcing me to answer this question on the hike up to the given coordinates. Unfortunately, Ben was the one who was there to hear the involuntary bite in my voice.
At least my head was clear today, clearer than it had been in weeks. Once we had gotten up into the hills, the distortions to my senses had started fa
