“We are the best, Ciara,” Master Damien said sitting on the bench in the room, “I am the best fighter, Kein is the best tracker, Bane is strong as any two men, Christof makes the most girls, and Evan’s talent is unrivaled. Together we are a near unbeatable force.”

“The Administrators believe as General we would inspire the men to be more like us. We are always the best and always strive for excellence.

They want to make our family the paradigm for the compound,” he finished leaning against the wall.

Master Christof sighed and stroked my hair, “You are precious to us. We do not wish to lose you, but we do not know how to keep you. The vote is to be held in a Lunar cycle.”

“It’s a vote?” I whispered and they told me it was. “So there are other families you are running against.”

“Yes,” Master Christof said, “families we feel would be happy to be General. They are not as strong as us. We feel sure the vote will go our way, the General agreed.”

you don’t

Master Kein said softly, “we discussed

‘s L I B R A

is the position of head slave in the compound. We have no more choice in the matter

reeling. Something they had

asked. “My uncles sucked at every job they did. No one ever wanted them in charge of anything. They showed

acted like that,” Master Damien snorted, “it would be

men agreed with Master Damien about how ridiculous that idea was. They would never act in such

wasn’t surprised when I vomited a

it or not, they were going to be promoted. They didn’t have the imagination necessary to buck the system. I would just have

myself to sleep that night. They tried to shush and comfort me, but it didn’t work. I finally fell asleep when they put a tiny amount of the calming cream on my

up the next morning and the sun was high in the sky. My brain felt a little fuzzy from the calming

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