Bootcamp 6.1 -

She looked at Jonas. “How do you feel?”

Hour three. Hierarchy is violence. Obedience is freedom. Jonas felt his sense of self—the jagged, stubborn, annoying part that wanted to argue, to question, to say “no”—begin to fray at the edges like an old rope. bootcamp 6.1

A low hum vibrated through the cap. Jonas felt a gentle pressure behind his eyes, like a sneeze that wouldn’t come. Memories surfaced unbidden: his father screaming at a referee on a little league field. His own fist connecting with a classmate’s jaw in ninth grade. The hot, righteous flash of anger—so pure, so his . She looked at Jonas