“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.”

tell them you don’t want

Master Kein said softly, “we discussed this with the

G E L A ‘s L I B R A

same thing we know, namely how this world is run. The position of General is the position of head slave in the compound. We have

my head was reeling. Something they had said made me think. They had

at every job they did. No one ever wanted them in charge of anything. They showed up

like that,” Master

the men agreed with Master Damien about how ridiculous that idea was. They would never act in such a way as I described. It would

and wasn’t surprised when I vomited

They didn’t have the imagination necessary to buck the system.

to shush and comfort me, but it didn’t work. I finally fell asleep when they put a tiny amount of the calming

in the sky. My brain felt a little fuzzy from the calming cream, but I hadn’t lost my memory. Slowly I rose from

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