"Gone"

Chapter 9

"Pills"


STANDARD DISCLAIMER: See: Chapter 1


Nikki stood at the bathroom sink, thinking.

Zeta had met with his students that afternoon. Naturally Nikki had eavesdropped.

"We're the last of our houses," Zeta had said soberly. "The Looms are gone."

She'd heard him say it before, "last of the Starkweathers", and she knew it cut him deeply.

She stared at the pack of pills in her hand.

"I don't need no stinkin' Loom," she whispered, and dropped them in the trash.

She thought of Lady Drox and her obsession with joining a scary-sounding cult that was into blood sacrifice.

She dug the pills out of the trash.


CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 10, "It's Worth It!"