chapter 1, part 2

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Ilion, the first city of the Aarian Dominion, is home to about a million souls, which means there were some fifteen thousand children in the tenth year of life in the same summer Cyn and I were presented to the Synths. Fortunately, not all fifteen thousand stood before the same Synths, as we were divided by precinct, and there are over a hundred in...