“I feel frightened, too, for him,” she confessed. “You know that there’s no third chance.
The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.”
Jonas shivered. He knew it happened. There was even a boy in his group of Elevens whose father had been released years before.
No one ever mentioned it; the disgrace was unspeakable. It was hard to imagine.
Lily stood up and went to her mother. She stroked her mother’s arm.
From his place at the table, Father reached over and took her hand.
Jonas reached for the other. One by one, they comforted her.
Soon she smiled, thanked them, and murmured that she felt soothed.
The ritual continued. “Jonas?” Father asked. “You’re last, tonight.”
Jonas sighed. This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden.
But it was, of course, against the rules. “I’m feeling apprehensive,” he confessed,
glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.
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