Hailey Majestic had abandoned her Watcher.

The spaceship housed several bedrooms, and Hailey sat inside one. A food tray remained next to her as she sat on a comforter. Blue walls surrounded her. They didn't belong to the space station she had lived in for years.

She bit into her red fruit. Did Vera eat? Did she search for Hailey?

Her great aunt, Nerra, had been born a Bloodhound. So had Vera. She could find Hailey, and she might. If she saw Vera again, Hailey wouldn't hug her. She couldn't caress Hailey's hair anymore.

In the spaceship's cockpit, Hailey sat in the pilot's chair. She stared past the spaceship's tinted windshield. The vessel's headlights cast bright beams forward, fighting darkness in outer space.

A structure.

Like the ones forming the home Hailey had left, the structure's walls were blue. Soynites favored that color. Windows stood in the walls. Some of the windows were small. Others were huge, like the ones in the hangar. Spaceships sat in it, and the illumination coming from light fixtures glowed against their blue metal. Attached to the structure's exterior were more light fixtures, and they produced bright glows.

A Soynite space station.

Hailey moved a hand into her pants pocket, and she touched her teleportation stone. Not long after that, she stood inside the hangar. She had teleported herself and the spaceship into the massive room. She couldn't use the teleportation stone to reunite with her father, but the object had its perks.

She tucked her hair behind her ears before heading toward a door. She could teleport closer to it, but walking in a space station that didn't contain Vera wouldn't hurt her.

When Hailey came close to the door, it opened.

A woman. Light covered her pale skin. She had long orange hair. Her eyes were green, like grass that had danced on Soy while a gust blew. She was thin.

"Who are you?" she asked, speaking Soynite.

"My name is Hailey Majestic," Hailey said. She had told the woman her first and last name, but that didn't mean she would believe the girl. "I'm Theo Majestic's third child. He had children with Lilly Majestic, my mother. I know it's probably hard to believe."

"I'm going to read your mind," the woman said. Hailey nodded, and waited. "You're telling the truth. It's a pleasure to meet you, Hailey. My name is Betty Fly. I'm Lena Fly's Watcher. Her original name is Lovely Windsore."

Out of all the space stations she could have discovered, Hailey had found one a High lived in. She grinned.

Where was Lena Fly? She couldn't look at Hailey, but the Majestic might see the High.

"Can I see her?" Hailey said. "I already know she's blind, by the way. And I really want to see her."

Betty's breath trembled, as if she had spotted a Freeman spaceship.

"Listen, Hailey," Betty said. She gripped Hailey's shoulders. "Turn around, then go back to wherever you came from. Lena is not someone you want to meet, unless you want to suffer. She will hurt you. I'm sorry we might never get to know each other better, but you don't want to be in the same place as Lena. She was harsh to others as a child, and she's even worse now. She doesn't hurt me, but you're not me. If you stay here, you will get hurt."

Hailey fiddled with her fingers.

Her father had made Lena into a ruler. If the Majestic left, she wouldn't be able to serve and help her blind leader. She wouldn't hurt Hailey.

She shook her head.

"She isn't going to hurt me," she said. "I want to help her. I want to serve her. Lena is one of my Highs."

"Hailey, please," Betty said. "Just leave. Lena is—"

"Lena is what?!" a voice shouted.

Betty sighed. "I'm sorry, Hailey."

The Watcher moved aside. Someone took steps toward the hangar.

A teenage girl held a white cane, and she swung it from side to side. It touched the floor at the end of each sweep. The girl moved in the hall bordering the hangar, dressed in a green shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. Her long orange hair touched her breasts. A Soynite pendant rested against her shirt. Like Betty, the girl was pale. She wore round sunglasses that were dark. She stopped walking, slim, royal, and blind.

Lena Fly.

"Who are you talking to, Betty?" the High said. She kept her head trained forward. "I heard a girl's voice."

"My name is Hailey Majestic," Hailey said. "I'm the third child of Theo Majestic."

Lena scoffed. "I'm not surprised Theo lied about not having children. You Majestics are so disappointing, especially the one named Theo."

Vera had disrespected Hailey's father with no shame, and so had Lena. Hailey bowed her head.

"Come closer to me," Lena said.

Hailey moved into the hall Lena stood in. The Majestic had obeyed a High's command, which her father wanted her to do. He had stood in front of Lena a long time ago, and he had made her into one of Soy's six rightful rulers. Soynites used to kneel for Hailey's father. Now the majority of them needed to kneel for the blind High.

"What do you look like?" Lena asked.

"I have blonde hair," Hailey said. "My eyes are blue. And I'm thirteen years old. I will be fourteen on December twenty-fifth."

"I didn't ask for your birthday! And I also didn't ask for your age."

Hailey had assumed her High would have preferred to know the extra information.

Betty stepped into view.

"Sorry, my High," Hailey said. She took a step back, as if Lena aimed a dagger at her. Betty rubbed Hailey's shoulder. "I'm really sorry."

Wetness left Hailey's eyes.

Betty had warned her about Lena. But if Hailey left, Lena would lose someone who could make her smile.

Hailey cried. Betty frowned, and Lena grinned.

"You're weak," the High said. "I can hear you crying."

A picture showing a young girl stayed in Hailey's backpack. The photographed child had grown into a teenager, one afflicted with blindness. She made it seem like Hailey had threatened to hurt her. She hadn't slammed her fist against Lena's stomach, and she hadn't tossed her sunglasses onto the floor.

What had Hailey done to deserve this cruel treatment?

"You've spent thirteen years being a Majestic," Lena said. "What a waste. Betty has been the only Soynite I could speak to for years, but you're in front of me now. I'm talking to a weakling."

"I'm sorry I haven't met you sooner," Hailey said. "But I'm here now, and I can kneel for you. I can kneel for my High."

Hailey kneeled on the blue floor, and bowed her head, kneeling for High Lena. A Soynite ruler stood in the hall, the only one Hailey could serve.

Betty looked at Lena. "She's kneeling for you."

"Good, weakling," Lena said. "Kneel for your High."

The High had yelled at Hailey. She had called her weak, but her rudeness didn't have to last forever. Hailey could make Lena be less cruel. She would.

"Rise, weakling." Lena commanded.

Hailey rose.

"Do you remember who made me into a High?" Lena said.

Hailey would never forget the man who had made her. He and his wife had granted Hailey her name, and he had pressed King Hase's pendant against Lena's forehead years ago.

"My father did," Hailey said. "Former High Theo Majestic."

"Betty, you remember what his ancestor Hase did after Spike Zero murdered one of the original Soynites," Lena said. "Tell me what Hase did to him and the other original Freemans after the murder."

"Hase spared their lives," Betty said.

Lena nodded. "Yes, he did. Right now, there's a weak girl with Majestic blood in her. Weakling, your heritage won't get you any special treatment here. You're in my home. And I know that there's no such thing as a great Majestic."

Vera had called Hailey weak. Lena had called her a weakling.

People had flung negative words at Hailey, but being a pacifist didn't mean you were weak. It meant you weren't willing to hurt people.

"I'm going to touch your pendant," Lena said.

She moved her hand, and it found one of Hailey's breasts.

"You're definitely a girl," Lena said.

She moved her hand, and it met Hailey's pendant. Lena grabbed it.

"Here it is," she said. She rubbed the pendant with her thumb. "Your father put Hase Majestic's against my forehead when I was five, and he made me into a High. That was the greatest thing he has ever done. He will never do anything greater than that."

Lena moved her hand away from Hailey's pendant. The one Lena wore had two horizontal lines that hovered beside each other. Like the triangle and circle on Hailey's pendant, the lines were white.

"How did you get inside my home, weakling?" the High asked.

"I used a teleportation stone," Hailey said. "I brought my spaceship into the hangar, and then I met Betty."

"And after you met her, you met the greatest High. You're here to serve me. And if you ever forget that, I will hurt you. Do you understand?"

"Yes. I understand."

Betty leaned against a wall. Hailey's spaceship remained in the hangar. Without it, she wouldn't have found High Lena.

"I also suggest that you never think about hurting me," Lena said. "Betty has all the Saves. She's powerful, and it's not smart to hurt the loved ones of powerful people."

"I agree," Hailey said.

She had met a powerful person. Her father could kill Lock Tannis with ease. The Freeman leader would make Hailey's father suffer if he could, but he would never be as powerful as former High Theo. He had been born before the other Majestics, and no one in his family had become as dangerous as he was.

If strife didn't exist, Summer would've failed to shoot Hailey's father. The Watcher had stolen her only younger sibling. She couldn't hug Anne. Summer might have turned her into someone who would smile if she killed another Majestic.

Hailey hadn't seen Anne in too long. She would see her younger sister, and they would hug. Summer wouldn't keep Anne forever.

"Agreeing with me is the right thing to do," Lena said. "No one has better opinions than I do, and I am a High. My word is law."

If Hailey served the High well, she wouldn't hurt the Majestic. Lena would love her. No matter what she had done to Hailey, Theo had made her into a special person. A Soynite ruler.

She had been blind for too long. Hailey could make Lena's life easier, and she would.

"I know it is," Hailey said. "Your word is law, and one day a crown will be on your head. And people will kneel for you while you wear it, myself included. People will see your greatness."

Lena grinned, as if Hailey had told her she knew a way to cure her blindness.

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"And that's what I deserve," Lena said. "People need to see my greatness, and they will."

Hailey looked at Lena's sunglasses. "Can I see your eyes, please?"

"Okay, weakling," Lena said. "You'll have to hold my cane, though."

She handed her white cane to Hailey. The Majestic held its black handle. She had held Vera's hand before, a woman who had tried convincing her to stay home. If Hailey had done that, she wouldn't have found Lena's home.

While invisible on Soy, Hailey had seen Nova. Hailey had seen Freemans with laser guns and red swords. She had seen Vera.

Lena removed her sunglasses.

Pale gray eyes. Lena's pupils were pale gray, unlike Hailey's black ones. Lena's eyes were lighter than Soy's lifeless soil, gray soil that would be brown after the planet's revival. Her eyes wandered. But looking at them was like looking at a gray flower. Beautiful.

"My eyes used to be beautiful green ones," Lena said. "Betty told me they turned gray. They also wander."

"Your eyes are still beautiful," Hailey said.

Lena's eyes hadn't been taken out, but they were useless. She couldn't see a friend's smile, a photograph of herself, or the hall she stood in. Lena couldn't see the universe's beauty.

She scowled before putting on her sunglasses.

"Give me my cane," she said.

Hailey gave her the white cane.

Lena slammed her foot against the girl's leg, making her yelp. She dropped onto her knees. Pain ran through the sore area, like blood in a body.

Hailey strangled the urge to see Vera. The girl couldn't go home.

Don't call her eyes beautiful! Betty telepathically said to Hailey.

Telepathy.

Hailey's father had possessed that power for many years, but he preferred to not invade people's mental privacy. Unless he had to. If he were in the hall, he could heal Hailey. But he had been missing for too long. His daughter had found Lena, who acted like hurting Hailey had become her highest priority.

On her knees, Hailey pressed her hands against the floor. Tears dripped onto it.

"My eyes are beautiful," Lena said, wielding her cane, which wasn't meant to be a weapon. "You are crying now, weakling, but you will love me. You will love me and I will never love you."

Hailey rubbed her leg while frowning.

"You kneeled for greatness today, so be grateful," Lena said. "Too few Soynites get the opportunity to kneel for the great Lena Fly. If my powers were with me, you would see more of my greatness."

Lena's powers. Had she lost them?

"What happened to your powers?" Hailey asked.

"They were stolen from me," Lena said. She clenched her fists. "They were taken away when my sight was taken away."

Betty bowed her head.

Hailey grimaced, as if Lena had kicked her again. She had been born a Pure, but she had never developed the Save that granted the power to heal wounds and destroy pain. She had always been a powerless Pure. If she lived long enough, she would possess every Save, but that hadn't happened yet.

"My leg really hurts!" Hailey said.

Lena grinned.

"You whine too much," she said. "Betty, heal her when I leave this hall. I'm going to take a nap."

Hailey smiled, as if Betty had already healed her. She would take away her pain, and Lena would sleep. When she fell asleep, she wouldn't be able to hurt Hailey.

"Where are you, Betty?" Lena asked.

She pointed her palm at the space near the Watcher, and let her hand roam. Betty grabbed it.

"I'm right here, Lena," she said.

"Give me a hug and a kiss," Lena said. She and Betty stopped holding hands. "Two things that weakling's parents can't give her."

The High set her cane on the floor. Betty hugged her, and Lena hugged her back. The embrace ended. Betty pressed her lips against Lena's. Hailey's mother and father couldn't kiss her forehead, and the girl had gone too long without seeing either of her parents.

"I am never going to show affection to that weak Majestic," Lena said. She picked up her cane. "Remember what I told you, Betty. Heal her when I leave this hall."

When Lena and her cane were gone, Betty kneeled in front of Hailey.

"I was already planning on healing you," the Watcher said.

Hailey moved onto her butt. She moved her pants leg, exposing the area Lena had kicked. Betty placed a hand on the sore spot. The pain vanished.

"I'm grateful I was able to meet you, Hailey," Betty said. "But forming a meaningful bond with Lena will be difficult. You might as well not even try to. Each time you get near her, you're putting yourself in danger. You never should have come here."

Lena had hurt Hailey, but Betty had healed her. She might get hurt again, but the pain would disappear.

With her words, Hailey had made Lena grin. She couldn't see her sisters, but she could make the blind High happy.

Lena would care about her.

"I've already made her smile," Hailey said. "I'm going to do it again. I'm going to make my High happy, and she will love me. Difficult doesn't mean impossible."

Lena and Betty had hugged before kissing. Affection. The High would rather kick Hailey than embrace her, but Lena's disgust with the Majestic wouldn't last. Her blindness would go away too.

"Lena is my High," Hailey said. "I need to serve her. I can't go back home. I left my Watcher, Vera. We argued before that, and I don't want to see her. She didn't tell me that my mother and brother came to see me. That happened years ago, but Vera finally told me about it today. I left her, then I found you and Lena. I know I should forgive Vera. But I'm too angry with her. Plus, our space station started feeling like a prison. I had to leave."

Soy had never had prisons, but Free did. So did Earth, a planet Hailey had gone to before.

"I'll be good to you, but Lena might treat you horribly forever," Betty said. "Her self-confidence is inspiring. She's been blinded, but she still decides to live. And she's smart. She is wonderful, but she can be unnecessarily harsh, too."

Hailey had complimented Lena's eyes, and it had earned her a kick to the leg.

"She's like a daughter to me," Betty said. "And I'm extremely grateful that she lives here. Even before Soy's invasion, I've been the owner of this space station. And I've been keeping Lena safe here."

Hailey had spent over a decade living inside a space station. The home she had left was one of several space stations Theo Majestic owned, yet it lacked Majestics.

"Lena's father, Boone, is like you," Betty said. "He's a great Soynite. I haven't seen him in years, though. When the Invasion was happening, he went with me and Lena. Me and her needed to reach your father. It was great that Boone was with us, but his wife hadn't been with us at the time. A Freeman made sure of that. When we were outside the spaceport, Boone bid farewell to me and Lena, then I never saw him again."

Boone Windsore, another missing father.

"The last time I saw my father was a few days after the Invasion," Hailey said. "He's been gone for too long."

Hailey looked at her healed leg.

"Thanks for healing me, by the way," she said. She moved her pants leg to conceal her bare skin. "And I don't believe that Boone is dead. He's going to find you. He's going to find you and Lena. She's also wrong. She is going to love me."

Hailey pressed her hands against the hard floor. Kneeling, Betty remained in front of her.

"Never let her catch you saying that she's wrong," Betty said. "I have all the Saves, but it came at a terrible price. I'm powerful, but I can't hurt Lena. I won't. If she hurts you, don't expect me to punish her. I have to do what she wants me to do, but it's not just because she's my High. Because of me, she can't see. She changed after that incident on planet Still. It's my fault."

Lena didn't treat Betty as if she had blinded her.

"It's not your fault," Hailey said. "You can't blame yourself."

"I can," Betty said. "If you knew what happened on Still, you wouldn't say that I can't blame myself."

She moved her butt onto the floor. Hailey and Betty sat across from each other, safe inside a space station, not dead.

"You said that you are Theo Majestic's third child," Betty said.

"I did," Hailey said.

"That means that your father had more than one child," Betty said.

"He and my mother had four children together."

Hailey told Betty about Nick, Nova, and Anne. She spoke about other members of her family, her father being one of them. She talked about Vera. She told Betty about Lock Tannis. Hailey gave her more information.

"The universe can be a cruel place," Betty said. "I hope you find the people you're looking for. Also, don't worry about having to speak to Lena. I'm going to tell her everything you told me."

"Okay," Hailey said. "Lena deserves to know. She also deserves to see."

"She does. She has been blind for years, and she still hates it. Our High wants her sight back. I should check on her. You should stay away, and I don't mean this place in general. I mean that you can't be around Lena. It's for your own safety. She probably isn't asleep yet."

"I'm going to be fine," Hailey said. "I'm here to help, and I'm here to serve High Lena. And maybe my father will come here. I don't know how long I'll be in this space station, but I'm not planning on leaving soon. I have to be here."

Hailey moved onto her knees. So did Betty. Hailey untucked her hair from behind her ears and let it touch her breasts.

"You're a good Soynite, Hailey," Betty said. "Can I hug you?"

Hailey nodded. "Yes."

She and Betty hugged. Hailey closed her eyes, far from her father, her mother, and her three siblings.

The hug ended too soon.

"You couldn't hug your father today," Betty said. "But you did hug me."

She stood, and Hailey did the same.

"One day I'll hug Lena," she said.

"One day she has to be a much better person," Betty said. "If she doesn't, there's a chance that she will never see again. I want Lena to see. She can't even see colors. She doesn't see darkness, either. She sees absolutely nothing. The High is one-hundred percent blind, as if she doesn't have eyes at all. That's why her cane is completely white."

Lena had embraced Betty. Lena had a white cane, round sunglasses, and the power to show compassion. Yet she lacked the ability to see the Majestic she had kicked.

"That's horrible," Hailey said.

"But Lena isn't," Betty said. "She does horrible things, but she isn't horrible. But I do know what she did to you was wrong. I apologize. Don't expect Lena to, because she won't. She never says sorry. Now, come on. Let's get out of this hall. I still have to see how our High is doing."

Hailey and Betty left the hall, and they moved through other ones. They found Lena.

In a hall, the High rested on a sofa. Her sunglasses sat on its armrest. Hailey didn't see the pendant she had worn. Lena's cane leaned against the piece of furniture, and her shoes rested near the cane. White socks covered her feet.

"Her room is right there," Betty said, pointing to the bedroom across from the sofa.

Betty reached into the room, and Hailey heard her flip a light switch. Illumination flooded the bedroom. Lena had no reason to touch the light switch.

The Watcher lifted Lena off the furniture. She carried her bridal style, which she did with extreme ease. Like Hailey's father, Betty possessed the power of super strength. Carrying Lena, she went into the bedroom. Hailey entered it. Like her room within the space station where she had left Vera, this room was blue.

Taped to the wall, a photograph showed a man with orange hair and green eyes. He might be Boone Windsore. Hailey had taped a picture of her father to a wall in her bedroom.

Did Vera sit on the Majestic's bed and wonder if she would return home?

Lena's pendant rested on the nightstand beside her bed. A desk hugged the wall, and a chair stayed underneath it. A wooden dresser stood in the room. Maybe it harbored clothes Lena couldn't see even if they were outside of it. Hailey wore the outfit Vera had seen her wearing earlier.

Hailey moved the comforter on the bed, exposing a sheet. Betty lowered Lena onto it, then the Majestic covered her with the comforter. Lena didn't open her eyes. But she breathed. A Freeman hadn't murdered her. Betty had kept her alive.

"Thanks, Hailey," Betty said. "Your father isn't here, but it's great that you are."

She kissed Lena's forehead, then gestured for Hailey to follow her. They returned to the hall, and Betty flipped the light switch, bringing darkness back into Lena's room. She closed the door.

"You said that Lena is smart," Hailey said. "She might help me figure out what happened to my father."

Only the Supreme High could turn Soynites into Highs, and Hailey's father had made Lena into one. She hadn't referred to herself as the Supreme High. Though she acted as if she had become better than all the Soynites.

Theo's leader status had gone away, and so had he. Lena might form a theory about what had happened to him.

Hailey sat on the sofa, her bottom meeting the furniture's soft cushion. Her father had won the right to sit on a throne many years before her birth. Now Hailey sat on a sofa the ruler Lena had slept on.

"You're free to talk to her," Betty said. "But if you do, it will come with risks. Those risks involve pain. Lena doesn't hurt me, but she might hurt you. And she already has. I don't want to imagine the two of you as friends, because I know that becoming friends with Lena will be difficult for you. It will be a painful process. You were nice to her, and it got you hurt."

Hailey looked at the sunglasses on the armrest. "I shouldn't have complimented her eyes."

"Lena is the type of person who can easily find a reason to be angry with you," Betty said. "A simple thing can send her into a rage. But I do have some advice to give you. Don't call her eyes beautiful, and never call them ugly. If you had called them ugly, she would've done worse than kick you."

"No one is ugly. And everything is beautiful."

Betty sat beside Hailey. "Lena doesn't believe this universe is a good one. What you told me is going to make her hate life even more."

"I'll keep helping her," Hailey said. "I have to make her believe that life is great."

Unbeknownst to Hailey, she would kill Lock Tannis at the age of fifteen. She would become Great Leader Hailey Majestic, ruler of planet Free and its people. Freemans would kneel for her. But she didn't know this.

And she didn't know she would become the Supreme High.

"I've been trying to make Lena's life as great as it can be," Betty said. "Like Vera, I was paired with my mentee before she was born. When I met Lauren, she was pregnant with Lena. Of course she wasn't blind when I met her for the first time. No, that happened when she was six, and she's sixteen now. She's been blind for most of her life. And she still is."

Lena had fallen asleep, but she hadn't regained her vision.

She would.

"I have to be a great Watcher to her," Betty said. "I am not Summer Locket. I never kidnapped my mentee. I had Boone's permission to leave with his daughter."

"Summer isn't going to keep my younger sister away from me forever," Hailey said. "I'll see Anne again, and Lena will see you again. She will see all the beauty in this universe. I want her to."

"So do I. She also has to reunite with the other Highs. By the time she does, maybe she will have her vision and her Saves. I don't know if one of her fellow Highs proclaimed themselves as the Supreme High, but I do know that there should be a vote. There should be a vote on which High should become the leader of the Highs. They will have to be the only participants of that vote."

Betty gestured to the bedroom door.

"I know she wants to be the Supreme High," she said. "But there's a chance the other Highs don't want her to lead them. None of them are fond of her. I doubt they will want her to be their leader, or maybe Kara Ascend will. She was a baby who was never given a reason to dislike Lena. Or maybe her Watcher's opinion about Lena will make her dislike her, too."

Hailey had lived in a palace with Don Ascend. His wife, Camille, had resided with her older brother. Cambridge Downer.

Betty hadn't told Hailey Kara had died. The youngest High might be alive.

Power. Lena had become a ruler of the Soynite race, but she didn't have authority over the other Highs. Her co-leaders. Her equals. She acted as if wielding power were almost as important as breathing.

"Power isn't everything," Hailey said. "Doing what's best for everyone is. Abusing your power over others is never the right thing to do, and power should be used to help people, not harm them. My father was the Supreme High, the leader of his co-rulers. He had power, and he never abused it. He used it to help others. If I had power, that's what I would do."

Hailey's hands touched a sofa, not a throne. Destruction had touched her father's, which he had earned when he became a king. But what had been destroyed during Soy's invasion would be repaired. It would happen. So would Hailey's reunion with her father.

"If I had the power to give Lena her sight and Saves back, I would," Betty said. "I can turn invisible, walk through walls, and I stopped aging the day Lena became blind. But I can't cure her condition. If I could trade my powers for that cure, I would. I wouldn't even hesitate."

If given the chance, Hailey would cure Lena. She had disrespected her, and she had kicked her. Yet Lena deserved to regain her vision and use her powers again.

What would the Majestic have to do to earn a sweet hug from Lena Fly?

"I want Lena to be cured, too," Hailey said. "And I want me and her to be like sisters."

"I hope that happens," Betty replied. "Lena won't hurt a girl who is like a sister to her. But you might leave before that happens. Because Lena will probably do something terrible, and it might make you go back home."

"No matter what happens, I know that this is where I need to be."

"Would you be willing to stay here and watch Lena for me? I don't mean right now. Soon, though. I think I should go to Earth. There might be Soynites there I could bring here. If we had more of us living here, our High would be safer. So, would you be okay with staying here while I spend some time on Earth?"

Hailey nodded. "Of course. I would be okay with that."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, Betty."

Betty stood. She offered her hand, and Hailey grabbed it. The Watcher helped her stand.

"By the way, do you know where the Soy Maker is?" Betty said. "It can cure Lena."

Hailey shook her head. "No. My father hid it, and I don't know where it is. My father is the only one who knows where he put it."

"That's okay," Betty said. She put a hand on Hailey's shoulder. "Let's find a bedroom for you to sleep in."

Hailey would sleep in a High's home. She didn't have to lay in the space station Vera lived in, and Hailey could see Lena later.

Betty moved.

Hailey followed.