Chapter 13 : Gen 7
Dot was drowsy down in her post at Scout Monitoring. She had picked her nose clean, done her stretches for the day, checked out the latest gossip, that crazy old neighbor still threatened people with a knife. It was a boring day as usual.
She rubbed her eyes and she saw the picture of that scout, Ash. The indication over his file was a large MIA, for Missing In Action. When had she fallen asleep over his photo? How embarrassing. Then again, it wasn’t like someone would come in here on purpose.
Oh well. She squeezed her jacket into a tighter pillow and rested her head on the desk.
“This is… hiss reporting. Can anyone hiss?” a man’s voice sounded. Dot moaned and switched sides, sleeping on.
“This is Scout thirty, over. Can… hiss.” Dot swore at her stupid dream and rub
