Atonement Child

No, she didn’t want to become one of the legion, and she held no false hopes of becoming his choice.

“She’s had counseling.” Psychiatrists and psychologists were always good at finding someone to blame. Mother. Father. Society. That was what was wrong with Kip.

wasn’t a woman! She was a child! A child in trouble and needing a way out, and we offered those services to her! Now what’s she going to do?” It would do no good whatsoever to tell Brenda that even the Supreme Court agreed that a woman didn’t need to know very much and, in fact, agreed that the less they knew the better