For three years they called me a freak—and I stayed silent—until they touched my little sister in front of everyone, and the truth I buried finally came out and changed everything.

using standard tracking methods. We had a window of perhaps two minutes before their tactical commander ordered a sweeping grid search of the entire forest sector.

I grabbed Lily’s hand, pulling her up from the mud and guiding her along the dry concrete bed of the drainage canal toward the industrial border of the town. The autonomous drone overhead continue reading …