I mean: if youre going outside to look for your sister, I get it. Max goes silent. Maybe Mirjams death is hitting him now, maybe his voice will chokebut he goes on. But if youre going outside to help your mother . . . He gestures helplessly at my injured arm. His fingers stop a centimeter away, hovering in midair. Dont risk it. Dont risk you.Shes my mother.The captain will never let her on if she doesnt even try. Not when there are so many people who havent had thechance to try. People we can use on the ship. People who have been on that waiting list forever.There are a dozen things I want to say. But shes mymotheras though that means as much as people pretend it does.She is trying, just in a different wayas though Im convincing myself.I wasnt on that waiting list, either.I might not be someone the ship can use, as much as Im trying to be.
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