Chapter Nine
It wasn’t enough that her talent-genes had skipped her over entirely and were making her the running joke around the music school. But also, the snore that escaped her mouth during class was unanimously decided in a murmur to be in Fa minore.
She didn’t care. Her mind was spinning with tires on asphalt and all she could hear was bikes revving.
At recess she located Orestes and explained her thoughts to him in detail. “… And on the other they had climbed a ramp and one was doing a flip, the one with the gap between her teeth that I told you before and her friend with a Harley won the bet and bought them all a drink, but before that they had gone for drinks elsewhere and everybody shushed when they came in. They found a woman from Artemis Automotive and gave them an address a
