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The white coat followedto be afraid of"

I must not have looked convinced, because he continued "Have you ever broken a bone or bumped your head? Do you knohat a CT scan is?"

It was the patience in his voice that drewto have you lie down, and I’ll use that ht But first, you need to tell ht How did he know--?

"Your nae

"Ruby," I answered, and had to spellon the laptop, distracted for ahow painful it would be forif he could so lazy," the white coat groused, more to himself than to me "Didn’t they pre-classify you?"

I had no idea what he was talking about

"When they picked you up, did they ask you questions?" he asked, standing The rooe by any means He was by my side in two steps, and I was in a full panic in two heartbeats "Did your parents report your symptoms to the soldiers?"

"Symptoms?" I squeezed out "I don’t have any syelse "Cal to hurt you" The white coat kept talking, his voice flat, so in his eyes The lines sounded practiced

"There aredown to look at me eye to eye All I could see were his crooked front teeth and the dark circles ri his eyes His breath smelled like coffee and spear to take a picture of your brain, and it’ll help us put you with the others who are like you"

I shook , she is, I swear--she’ll tell you, please!"

"Tell ood at math and puzzles? Greens are incredibly s memories"

My mind jumped back to the kids outside, to the colored X’s on the back of their shirts Green, I thought What had the other colors been? Red, Blue, Yellow, and--