Tubeteen Couple Site
“Lu,” he said. “I think the Dream Stream wasn’t showing us a human couple. I think it was showing us what we could be.”
Finally, they reached the Source.
“I know.” Lu’s magenta body trembled, sending tiny ripples through the pipe water. “But the Dream Stream showed me something. A couple. A human couple.” tubeteen couple
Lu took Pip’s blocky, waterproof hand. Her fingers were warm. “Is that what a couple is? Two things that don’t have to be useful together, but choose to be?”
It smiled.
Pip’s body was sky-blue, his screen-face perpetually set to a gentle, worried expression. His best friend—and the only other Tubeteen in a fifty-mile radius of rusting dryers—was Lu.
“They were holding hands,” she said. “And their faces weren’t screens. They were flesh . And they were looking at each other like… like the way we look at a fully charged battery.” “Lu,” he said
“We have to go,” Pip said.
