Of Councils and Conspiracies

[memoryandtheft]

We managed to make it in and out of the Council offices in one piece.

[That's the sort of statement that should sound celebratory. It doesn't. Even with the flattened affect provided by the psychic network's rendering of tone, there's an undercurrent of carefully restrained anger.]

The plague's gone. The plague's been gone for almost two hundred years. The Council's been keeping quarantine all this time in order to keep from having to admit they've been drugging people blind for no good reason for centuries. Their biggest concern right now is the fact that more and more kids are being born resistant to their drugs.

That's where the Duskling population boom is coming from. And the kids born on the wrong side of twilight - apparently, immunity to one side doesn't guarantee immunity to the other, and they aren't all that careful about making sure their shipments don't get mixed up, since an adult probably isn't going to notice any change after a few doses of the wrong thing.

Comments

[memoryandtheft]

Or both.

[leftbehindagain]

Both is possible, but I think they'd weed people out before residency as much as possible. Keep them from getting too close to state secrets.

[memoryandtheft]

Fair point.

If they come off as too loyal to the status quo, general science students might be a safer bet. There are too many by far for them to have been selected for temperament, and I've never heard of a scientist that likes being silenced.

[leftbehindagain]

True. I just want this thing to stand a chance of helping people.

[memoryandtheft]

It will. Once it's been proven that the plague is gone, people will be able to start rebuilding.