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"What a relief," Addie said dryly "Me and o over there and tell the others"

I didn’t knohether to give her an exasperated look or laugh at that coes of her ht both expressions on my face I quickly wiped away my amusement as I turned to Micah

"I’ her walk away "Doesn’t seeed Addie had been at HARC for six years, so shethatorders I certainly was

Two Reboot kids ran around the fire pit, and Micah followed rinned "Cool, isn’t it?"

"Weird," I irl Reboot was irl chased her dangerously close to the fire No one seeuessed it wouldn’t matter if both of them fell in and rolled around in the flaed, it didn’t look like thatinclined I’d only seen the one baby last night and I’d only noticed one little boy, other than the two girls at the fire pit

"Are there a lot of kids here?" I asked

Micah headed in the direction of the food table,for me to follow him "No," he said, eyes downcast as he handed one now"

"Gone where?" I asked A girl about e, actually The makeup of the reservation was si between twelve and twenty Where was everyone else? Shouldn’t there have been e? Or older?

He was silent until we sat down in the dirt "We had o" His voice was low

"Where’d they go?" I gripped roup of fifty or so took off by themselves"

I lifted my eyebrows "Why?"

"You’ve noticed there aren’t a lot of older Reboots on the reservation?"

I nodded

"We had a falling-out," he replied "The older generation wasn’t happy here, didn’t like the way I was running things, so they left Most of the people with children decided to go with theht they’d be safer away from here"