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was a moment, a fraction of time. Stolen, and over too fast. My hands shake, though, and know the kiss was too much for my body. It’s scary to see how my body reacts when it connects with hers.
    She sets her green hands on mine, even though I know she wants to pull away. She knows I’m in pain. My light wanes, and she wants to help and she does. Her touch soothes and releases me as she lets me go.
    “What the hell?” A voice from inside the compound shouts out.
    I look at Lucy, realizing we must have set something awry again when we let our lips touch. She folds her arms and steps father from me, increasing the divide.
    “I need some space, Lukas. I can’t do this right now.” She wipes a tear from her face, and her eyebrows force themselves in a steady line, as though she is willing herself to not give in to the possibility of her and I. “Anyways, the water is right here, there are tons of buckets. I don’t know how much horses drink … maybe Charlie….”
    “I can figure it out myself.” I turn from her, wanting to stomp, to slam something, to punch the wall-- but not wanting to act like a child even though the anger inside me is boiling. I can’t do anything to make the one person I care about happy.
     

7.
     
    Lucy
     
    I walk away from Lukas and go back into the compound. I want to lie in a bed, fall asleep and wake up like the sun, rising to a new day. But everyone in the compound is agitated and I feel obligated to help them since I brought them here.
    “Why did everything buzz for a second and then stop? I thought the generator had no fuel?” Junie asks as I step into the kitchen.
    “Yeah, all the security cameras flipped on too, and then disappeared,” Duke says.
    “Sorry, it was my fault. Lukas and I….” But I stop, not wanting to finish, feeling foolish and exposed. I don’t want to tell anyone about who I kiss or don’t kiss. Especially not this room full of people. “It must have been a fluke. This house has been empty for a while now. Anyways, don’t you have to get water, Duke?” I ask, my eyes narrowing in on him, changing the conversation.
    Everyone goes back to what they were doing, when Charlie comes in with the roasted rabbit, Basil and Junie set bowls of dried apples and more nuts on the table, and I remove the teacups from the table.
    Perfection, moody as ever, goes through her belongings and produces a bag of cookies from the Refuge, adding that to the meal. However, once she begins nibbling on dinner, her attitude shifts, and I see her talking with interest to Junie and Duke over plates of rabbit.
    After everyone has eaten, we divide ourselves and find a place to sleep. I walk through the study to my old room, but before I slip inside, I look back. Lukas and Charlie are huddled over a chessboard, talking intently. Perfection is lying down on the sofa with a big blanket covering her. She closes her eyes, seeming to take this whole thing with Lukas not really wanting to be Bound to her in stride. I saw her sneaking looks at Charlie all day and though I don’t want that to bother me, it does. Basil and Hana-Grace have claimed another, Colton and Duke are in the last room, and it feels good to have everyone situated.
    It means I can rest. In my room I pull open all the drawers in my dresser looking for cozier clothes, clothes that feel like me. I tug my dirty pants off my narrow waist and pull the sweatshirt off over my head. Finding a pair of flannel pajamas to cover myself in and slip them on. I’m sure everyone else will be grateful for clean clothes as well, and I make a note to tell everyone they are free to rifle through the clothes here, although they don’t seem to be the style Junie and Colton prefer. Not enough black with safety pins holding worn fabric together, but I have no doubt they’ll make do.
    Slipping under the covers, I stare at the blank walls around me in the room is empty. Why was I content reading the adventures of people in the novels that lined