Cora POV
Oddball surprised me, but by asking me to join him in the meeting, then later at lunch, when he put me in charge of the information correlating, along with Hacker, I felt useful, giving meaningful information, and ideas that could be used, not just a nod that they had half listened to me, but actually heard and expanded on, never in my personal life had that happened before.
It was euphoric, like a dream come true.
To be heard.
To be seen.
To be allowed to contribute.
To be part of a team.
If you asked me what I ate for lunch, or what it tasted like, I would have trouble telling you. My mind was busy talking with Hacker, and the act of eating and swallowing was more of a habit, an unconscious act of satisfying my hunger in the stomach, while Hacker filled the hunger in my
