Izramith booked a spot on the shuttle and went home to pack up, but, having barely unpacked since arriving from Indrahui, there was not much packing to do. The apartment looked abandoned, and the doors to Mother’s and Thimayu’s rooms were shut. Mother was probably at work in the uniform factory and Thimayu might have gone to see one of her frivolous friends.
Izramith had no great desire to personally say goodbye to either of them.
Just the thought of the empty room opposite hers made her angry. She played with the thought of just leaving and not letting either of them know where she had gone, but relented. That wasn’t her kind of behaviour. The fact that Mother and Thimayu behaved like pricks didn’t mean she was justified in doing the same.
So she wrote a note to Mother on the internal
