"Yeah," Maxine replied with a shrug. "Things just go round and round in circles here. So it doesn't really matter if I'm late for school."
Wash's accident had depressed her, but she wasn't quite old enough to recognize her feelings or know how to handle them. Recently she felt like doing something. Screaming, running, anything.
"There are hardly any dogs or any animals here. The City made people but it didn't really make a lot of animals."