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“Emeka, you forgot your respirator.”
I reached for the holster at my waistband and felt nothing. Not again!
“No, I didn’t.”
“So what am I holding right now, young man?”
I pictured Mum with the face-hugging contraption raised to eye level, a frown wrinkling her brow.
“Did you go into my room?” I was sure my sigh rang clearly through the tiny mic of my earpiece.
“That’s not the point. How are you going to get home without it?”
“The air quality counter’s green.” I rechecked the small, flat disk dangling from my ne... Read more
