Chapter 34

“I was born on a rainy day, in the month of November. I’m a Scorpio, although I don’t believe much in my horoscope, because everything has been outdated since we sank our civilization,” I began to say, a little nervous with all the attention. Randall just looked at me. “My mother was never someone difficult to deal with, but she was a little... airy. I never understood how she could have had a daughter. I never understood how any man even intended to take her to bed, since she didn’t seem to be the kind of woman who would know what to do. You know... Men can detect this just by looking.”

Randall seemed to want to hide a laugh.

“Some really do. Proceed.”

“Finally... I grew up on the other side of the border, in the middle of the food shortage. Without a father who worked in the army to give us a little more supplies in exchange for heavy labor. By the way, did you know they do that? The men, I mean, the boys in the family can enlist earlier in our army to help with