"I'm such a genius yakwim" I said to Katz five hours later in the Auto-doc. Kentro had dropped Catz at the auto-doc refuge and she had ordered him to go back for me.
"You are indeed. You were the first time you told me that as well. " said Catz weakly. She was out of her head on medication.
"Well the really smart part was how I absorbed the carbon dioxide, " I said.
"Not again" said Catz. Her eyes heavy. She was sedated tiny robots were roaming her body sealing internal bleeding. She would live. " What are you going to do?"
"With FiveDogs down I thought I would risk going back my parents for a couple of nights. Kentro has ordered an oxygen generator on Amazon. The underground section of Five Dogs is intact. There was a bulldozer attachment to the rover he's told rover to clear the sand from the entrance to the mine."
Catz looked away, a TV set played the local news channel to distract the patient. It was maxing out on the coverage of the nuclear explosion. While it had no volume the titles at the bottom of the screen said 'Earth threatens Historic First Foot print city with warning blast' said it all.
For a second I wondered about the adults. What were they doing? I knew the implants and spying supposedly made insurrection impossible, but doing nothing didn't seem - Eyeish. The resistance was out there.
"Not about FiveDogs dummy about Dan bud. I've been sleeping with him for weeks and not telling " said Catz. She was blurting out stuff like that like she had been given truth serum in the meds. Other statements she had made included 'You look like shit', 'I like your shoes bud' , 'I felt good when you said you would die for me and now I feel like shit for thinking that' and worst of all 'I never said this but that haircut just isn't you'. Talk about making your inner dialog public.
"If he's moved on then I guess he's moved on and so will I" I said "huh... that felt easier than I thought it would. He thinks I'm dead. I guess I am. You know how I was able to remain so calm in the bunker? I remember I'm living on borrowed time. I should have died on that ship like Dante thinks I did."
"The ambulance will arrive in seven minutes," said the Kentro.
"How are you not swearing all the time?" I said.
"I got badly hit by a rock during the explosion miss. During reboot I managed to install silence insults.
I hid while the ambulance robots came in and got Catz. After she left I had some time before Kentro and the Rover returned so I straightened things up. While I did I found Katz's phone. Katz kept saying she wasn't allowed to take photos in the base but I wondered. She had the same pass code she ever did so I couldn't help but look at her photos. I found selfie after selfie of her with some man who could have been Dante's brother. Strong family resemblance but not my Dante. For the second time that day I felt reborn.
I promised myself. If I can live through this, I could find a way through perfect security to Dante.
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