Chapter 11

“Yes,” Rhya said, a look of concern spreading across her face. “I heard something about that when they brought the young woman into the Medi-Center, but I didn’t hear what had happened.”

“It sounds like it might be serious,” Kai scowled. “Have there been many arrests?”

“Quite a lot, but few that have required litigation.” Jayanta nodded. “The strange thing about it, at least according to department rumor, is that none of the kids arrested seem to know why they were destroying things, or why they were angry. It’s like there’s a strange virus going around that turns people into criminals.”

“That’s very strange,” Kai admitted. “No one knows why? It almost sounds like the Sound Warsof the twenty-first century.”

“That’s what I thought, too,” Jayanta said, sitting forward. “Didn’t you say that certain sounds were outlawed because of that?”

Kai was always pleased and amazed that her sister had listened to her, but then, Jayanta surprised and amazed her quite a lot these days.