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    His whole body was shaking by the time he could stop the sobs spilling from his throat. For years, maybe his whole life, Tron hated everyone on this miserable ship. He was six when his parents moved him here, old enough to have a neighborhood of friends and to have started at a proper school. He didn’t know why his parents signed them up. He’d asked more times than he could count, but the answer was always the same. ‘It’s for the best. Now we’ll all have a better life.’ But Tron didn’t want a better life. He wanted the one left behind.
    On the Lucy, he was alone all the time, no matter how tightly packed the ship was. People with older children were discouraged from joining a colony. There were concerns about bacterial mutations caused by the vaccines required for school-aged kids. Tron didn’t know why he was the exception, but he was the only one. He didn’t even have the benefit of a sibling like most of the kids. Kivi was three years younger than him, and she was the closest to his age. There was no making friends with a three year old, and by the time she was old enough to try it was clear that there was something wrong with the girl. She didn’t talk to anyone, and by then Tron was used to having no one. What it meant was that he was surrounded by little kids he wasn’t interested in and adults who weren’t interested in him. And all he had to look forward to was the day they got to the planet and he got to spend the rest of his life building a colony with these people.
    So he hated them all. The truth was, it wasn’t much of a change for him. His father worked in hydroponics and his mother was maintenance, so neither one of them was ever around with him in their rooms. At least down in storage, there was a reason he was stuck