5   I was playing with the Opemipo-null when Fahran entered....  6   So I lied to them. I hadn’t seen Nona since I spotted her through the security cameras over a week before.... 

1  My life became a series of dark rooms; windows painted over, ever-present dust, never a gleam of sunlight or breath of wind. My only companion the flickering glow of the Opemipo-null in my glasses....  2  Lentils.  Lentils and eggs....   3  “You are awake. Good.” The speaker had a strange voice....   4  I attended St. O’hea’s School for Boys from pre-school through the completion of my matriculation exams, but never thought of myself as religious....