Miles - Nerd

“Every long day of those one hundred and eighty he spent in Rykers before my Crows and I showed up. That’s four thousand, three hundred and twenty hours. Two hundred fifty-nine thousand two hundred minutes.” She pauses, and her eyes dart up to the ceiling before returning to me. She looks a bit frazzled suddenly, lost. I decide to help her out.

“Fifteen million—”

“Fifteen million seconds!” she interrupts, as if she arrived at that number herself. “Do you know how that must feel for an old man? Not knowing where your family is, knowing you may not have minutes left on this planet?”

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Chapter 7