Jonas slowed the strokes of his hand on her back thoughtfully. “Larissa,” he asked, “what happens when they make the actual release?
Where exactly did Roberto go?” She lifted her bare wet shoulders in a small shrug.
“I don’t know. I don’t think anybody does, except the committee.
He just bowed to all of us and then walked, like they all do, through the special door in the Releasing Room.
But you should have seen his look. Pure happiness, I’d call it.” Jonas grinned. “I wish I’d been there to see it.”
Larissa frowned. “I don’t know why they don’t let children come. Not enough room, I guess. They should enlarge the Releasing Room.”
“We’ll have to suggest that to the committee. Maybe they’d study it,” Jonas said slyly, and Larissa chortled with laughter.
“Right!” she hooted, and Jonas helped her from the tub.
Five
Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams, Jonas didn’t contribute much. He rarely dreamed.
Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep,
but he couldn’t seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.
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