Asher took a pill each morning; Jonas did not. Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.
Now he swallowed the small pill that his mother handed him. “That’s all?” he asked.
“That’s all,” she replied, returning the bottle to the cupboard.
“But you mustn’t forget. I’ll remind you for the first weeks, but then you must do it on your own.
If you forget, the Stirrings will come back. The dreams of Stirrings will come back. Sometimes the dosage must be adjusted.”
“Asher takes them,” Jonas confided. His mother nodded, unsurprised.
Many of your groupmates probably do. The males, at least. And they all will, soon. Females too.
How long will I have to take them?” “Until you enter the House of the Old,she explained.
All of your adult life. But it becomes routine; after a while you won’t even pay much attention to it.
She looked at her watch.If you leave right now, you won’t even be late for school. Hurry along.
“And thank you again, Jonas,” she added, as he went to the door, “for your dream.”
Pedaling rapidly down the path, Jonas felt oddly proud to have joined those who took the pills.
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