19. My Kingdom for a Digital Video Recorder
Mina
Things had been better in the days after Halloween, for everyone, maybe for me most of all.
For the first time since I’d come out of that Warehouse alive, I’d gotten a reprieve. Reality was actually better than the probable scenario I’d spent the last month trying to accept.
I had Ben back on my side, and if it had been another of my recent reckless highs that had made me call us friends, I hadn’t come down yet. I hadn’t taken it back. I’d even said it a few more times for good measure. So far there had been no shattering, cosmic retribution. It wasn’t as if I’d offered to sell out our species for him or have his children or let him take me away from all this. We were still resistors, still allies against the Splinters, and we were also
